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Hello,
I've been using LiveCode daily for several years now with a company founded on an application I made for desktop. Unfortunately I am now looking for more work.
One of the questions I get asked by potential employers is whether or not LiveCode mobile is robust? I answer with a simple "Yes" which is followed by a long period of silence. I don't think I need a quantifiable answer but I do need more than 1 word.

My question is, could RunRev marketing (or other) give me a sentence to answer the question "Is LiveCode mobile robust?" as tough as JAVA or objective-c.

Thanks,
Simon

Simon..

What's that old saying... ' tool is only as good as the craftsman using it'... Just because someone might be chosen to write an application using java or objective-c over using liveCode does not mean that their application will be any better..

Perhaps you have to judge for yourself whether you consider liveCode the tool to use, and at the same time if your liveCode scripting skills are up to doing the job that your potential employers would expect. I find myself surprised quite often.. not by what liveCode can't accomplish but by what it is able to do that I did not expect.

be well

Dixie

If you don't have it yet, check out Colin's book. That should put many questions to rest.

http://www.packtpub.com/livecode-for-an ... guide/book

Thank you Dixie, Mark for your answers.
When I sit down at my desk in the morning and open up LiveCode I'm like a pig in sh**, there is always a solution to a problem. With LiveCode it's a puzzle game that I'm quite addicted to.

I recently interviewed with a company that does in car telemetry for insurance purposes. Currently they drop a black box in the car and now they want a smartphone to do it. (Dixie you'll know who I am talking about as we are both in the UK, they run very noisy ads on tv) On Monday morning I sat down and built an app that does most of what they need, easy. During the interview I was confident LiveCode could do the job, but I stumbled when the interviewer asked about robustness. And probably showed some trepidation when they mentioned "Millions of users".

I'm asking specifically for a sentence because I'm terrible at marketing and sales and I figure someone has to have answered the question well. Something like "Once the app has been debugged it's as robust as native coding".

Thanks,
Simon

Simon..

If you are looking for words, I can't help you... but I think that Kevin Miller can !... Have a look at the latest revUP newsletter 139. Kevin did a, well in my opinion, a very good presentation at the Turing Festival... towards the end of the presentation he mentions the companies that have put liveCode to good use... err... NASA using it to control a satellite, a University in Austria that uses liveCode to control everything from student accomodation to timetables and all sorts of other stuff, KLM that uses it for passenger booking to name a few... You have got to admit that this sort of CV for appications that have been accomplished using liveCode is pretty impressive...

be well,

Dixie