Hello
I have coded several solutions for my research lab with the community version of live code, which was for free. The fact that it was free drove the decision to use it, but also because I had experience with HyperCard.
Since the company abandoned the community editions, pricing became more and more expensive, and just now I realized that the current cheapest option is around 400 USD, which gives me access for only one year, although the compiled stacks will continue to work beyond that.
It is painful to pay that price simply because I have to only recompile existing stacks because the standalone broke with a macOS upgrade, and then not use the IDE anymore because after all these years of debugging, my software is basically sufficiently bug free that it runs without issues.
I am now considering my options. For some computers in my lab, it is not important that they run the latest macOS — I thought to maybe downgrade to an macOS that ran the latest community edition of liveCode.
I have some questions:
1. What OS version would that be? And what would be the latest community edition of liveCode?
2. Is the company that produces LiveCode at risk of bankruptcy? And if so, what are your plans to deal with such an event?
3. I started porting one of my liveCode solutions to SwiftUI. It is not that straightforward, but after some struggling, I am getting there. ChatGPT is very helpful as it knows SwiftUI and can produce code examples and partial solutions, but also it seems to have an idea of LiveCode, which helps with porting. Anybody else on that journey? What are your recommendations/thoughts?
Cheers,
ElZitouni.
I have coded several solutions for my research lab with the community version of live code, which was for free. The fact that it was free drove the decision to use it, but also because I had experience with HyperCard.
Since the company abandoned the community editions, pricing became more and more expensive, and just now I realized that the current cheapest option is around 400 USD, which gives me access for only one year, although the compiled stacks will continue to work beyond that.
It is painful to pay that price simply because I have to only recompile existing stacks because the standalone broke with a macOS upgrade, and then not use the IDE anymore because after all these years of debugging, my software is basically sufficiently bug free that it runs without issues.
I am now considering my options. For some computers in my lab, it is not important that they run the latest macOS — I thought to maybe downgrade to an macOS that ran the latest community edition of liveCode.
I have some questions:
1. What OS version would that be? And what would be the latest community edition of liveCode?
2. Is the company that produces LiveCode at risk of bankruptcy? And if so, what are your plans to deal with such an event?
3. I started porting one of my liveCode solutions to SwiftUI. It is not that straightforward, but after some struggling, I am getting there. ChatGPT is very helpful as it knows SwiftUI and can produce code examples and partial solutions, but also it seems to have an idea of LiveCode, which helps with porting. Anybody else on that journey? What are your recommendations/thoughts?
Cheers,
ElZitouni.
Statistics: Posted by ElZitouni — Tue May 28, 2024 1:58 pm