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Re: Ask HN: Tutorials written with heavy dependencies

#51

Post by gcanyon » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:23 AM UTC

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #50

gcanyon wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably already know this, but: the most affordable option is $10/month for a single platform. It seems perfectly reasonable for trying out the platform. If the license fees for serious development are a non-starter, then it's probably not worth trying out. But: There was an open source version at one point that wasn't economically viable so they discontinued it. In the announcement here: https://livecode.org th…

Thank you, for the pointer and the followup.

Hey, you're welcome. LC has warts, but when I just want to bang out some code to transform this into that, with a few buttons/dropdowns to play with the way it gets transformed, it's my go-to.

If there's something else better for that purpose I'd love to know about it -- probably would have to be python-based given all the libraries available for it at this point.

Re: Ask HN: Tutorials written with heavy dependencies

#52

Post by gcanyon » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #50

gcanyon wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You probably already know this, but: the most affordable option is $10/month for a single platform. It seems perfectly reasonable for trying out the platform. If the license fees for serious development are a non-starter, then it's probably not worth trying out. But: There was an open source version at one point that wasn't economically viable so they discontinued it. In the announcement here: https://livecode.org th…

Thank you, for the pointer and the followup.

I had forgotten there's an effort to maintain the open source version. I don't know how well-maintained it is, but the transition only happened in 2021, so it's probably not too out of date even if nothing has happened since. So how does free sound? http://www.openxtalk.org

Re: Ask HN: Tutorials written with heavy dependencies

#53

Post by IIsi50MHz » Mon, Jan 09, 2023, 12:58 AM UTC

gcanyon wrote: post #52

IIsi50MHz wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, for the pointer and the followup.

I had forgotten there's an effort to maintain the open source version. I don't know how well-maintained it is, but the transition only happened in 2021, so it's probably not too out of date even if nothing has happened since. So how does free sound? http://www.openxtalk.org

I see some active discussions on the org's forum. Thanks!