It is impossible for PB to compete with Visual Studio
Unless your goal is mediocrity, you should not try to compete with Visual Studio. It does not even support ISO standard C.
I got a nice email from PowerBASIC explaining that a key staff member had been in an auto accident, fortunately not seriously injured, which caused them to be behind in their email and shipping. I am giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if it was the same key employee that was in an auto accident several years ago that supposedly caused the delay in the shipment of manuals that I ordered? This was the excuse I was given when I called to ask about the status of my order.
As far as the website, web service providers go down, so that may not be their fault.
IIRC, before Bob's death, the servers were in-house and PB Inc. merely leased a data line from Verizon. Whether they have continued this or outsourced the servers is irrelevant at this point. Whatever the problem is, it is getting a bit harder to make excuses.
Despite all the challenges though, this does not mean they are not up to the task. It is only reasonable to expect them to take a year or so to figure things out. This is no overnight fix that can be done. They will likely make a few mistakes along the way and find out what works and what doesn't.
We have seen an update pushed out after Bob's death. It is not like they have been sitting on their hands staring at the monitor all day.
There is an old saying that behind all good men, is an even better woman. Bob's wife has been mentioned a time or two on the PB forums and I am sure she is doing what she can to keep the team going. Jim sounded overwhelmed in a previous post here, so hopefully he is getting some stress alleviated with the new team members that were added.
To quote Bob Zale - "smaller, faster", that is what I want and need.
PB 10 lost focus of this vision, as "actual used code" compiled in PB 10 is
often larger than the same code compiled in PB 9. I moved away from PB 10 because of the bloat. Unfortunately, the compiler I was using is now dead due to the incarceration of its author. So, I am back to using PB for some new projects.
Jim Bailey wrote that on 29 April. It is worth noting that we used to get notifications on PMs as well as activity on subscribed threads. Some folk may call by regularly but not log in so they will not be aware that a PM awaits them. I've had a few notifications from this forum in the last few days and it makes a world of difference.
I have heard of people being unable to register on the forum because the confirmation email is not sent out and therefore you can't confirm your account. If this is still true, tech support is basically closed off to new customers.
After the second episode we were told of a marketing guy and an IT guy were joining.
The IT guy needs to be fired immediately. It does not take over a month to update servers.
So will I, Guy, and I suspect many other folk will as well.
I will too. Thanks to the people named in my signature, I can keep going with PowerBASIC for several more years.
On a new compiler version I usually part with my hard earned as soon as I am aware of their existence. This will not be the case in the event of new versions and I suspect that will be the case for many other folk as well. Now, that is sad!
I will not spend another dime on unsupported software. Unless PB Inc. allows me access to the tech support forums, there will be no further purchases from me. People that do not believe in their product enough to provide support for it, will not see my money.
But do you really know what advantages 64bit gives you?
I answered this when Jim asked, but I was the only one who answered. I may be the only one interested in 64-bit support.
Yes, i have read these, and the no vapor ware policy moto, is realy too handy to turn us to mute...
The no vaporware policy did wonders for PB DOS 4.0 and PB for Linux. I hope the 64-bit version of PB for Windows has a better fate than PB for Linux.
