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Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by nicoburns »

elamje wrote: post #117
jacurtis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using TablePlus for a long time now as well. I don't have any affiliation but started with their mac app. It was easily the best DB GUI out there. I like that you can use the same GUI for PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite (there are even more than this, but these are the ones I use). It is awesome to have one very powerful and well-maintained program for all my database needs. I can get proficie…

That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they could have native apps for 3 platforms that have this much functionality with that many employees. Anyone else have insight?

Why not? Two full time developers is plenty if you don't have the overhead of management processes, and everyone has a unified vision. Sublime Text was a one-man show until relatively recently. It's a single cross-platform codebase, but he built the cross-platform abstraction layer himself! Presumably this has the underlying database logic in some kind of shared library.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by netsharc »

ricardobeat wrote: post #137
Nevada-Smith wrote: post #125

This program won't install on Windows 7 because it requires .NET Framework version 4.8, which won't install on Windows 7, because Micro$oft doesn't support it any longer. Given this, you'd think TablePlus would explicitly mention this before putting Windows 7 users through this unnecessary waste of time.

Why would they support a dead OS? Windows 7 is months past end-of-life, receiving no security patches and hence unsafe to use. And by the way they actually explicit mention it on the homepage - it says .NET 4.8 right under the download button.

It is still being supported, if you buy said support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-e...

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by Aeolun »

brandonmenc wrote: post #105
ineedtosleep wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagreed. I have a MBP, a Linux desktop and a Thinkpad running both Linux and Windows. My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them provided I don't run the program at the same time across multiple machines. Believing that most engineers only have one computer IMO seems out of touch with reality.

> My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.

DataGrip is quickly becoming unusable to me due to it’s inability to show me a tables/field encoding.

I really have no clue how anyone thought that was an unnecessary feature.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by Nevada-Smith »

ricardobeat wrote: post #137
Nevada-Smith wrote: post #125

This program won't install on Windows 7 because it requires .NET Framework version 4.8, which won't install on Windows 7, because Micro$oft doesn't support it any longer. Given this, you'd think TablePlus would explicitly mention this before putting Windows 7 users through this unnecessary waste of time.

Why would they support a dead OS? Windows 7 is months past end-of-life, receiving no security patches and hence unsafe to use. And by the way they actually explicit mention it on the homepage - it says .NET 4.8 right under the download button.

> And by the way they actually explicit mention it on the homepage - it says .NET 4.8 right under the download button.

True, that. Except who keeps track of which version of .NET works with what? I for one don't.

Years ago, I used to use TablePlus on my Win 7 box but eventually canned it for better (IMO) alternatives. So when TablePlus recently reappeared on HN, I decided to give it another tryout.

Not one to keep track of .NET compatibility, I simply clicked their "Download for Windows" button, and ran their setup program, which eventually prompted for me to download/install .NET 4.8, as if everything was okay so far...

All this extraneous effort could easily have been avoided simply by:

a) s/Download for Windows/Download for Windows 10/

b) Browser OS sniffing-->Sorry, you're using an unsupported OS

c) Their install program could have announced straight away-->Sorry, you're using an unsupported OS

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by paulryanrogers »

casperb wrote: post #86
anhthang wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like SequelPro. The UI much simpler, powerful, but it's inactivated, nobody working on it to update for new macOS :(

I loved it and would pay for it. But after 3 months of restarting it a couple of times a day since the 2018 Mac update, I switched to TablePlus. I still miss SequelPro, as its search and export features where way better then TablePlus’ way.

There are nightly builds, including in Homebrew. They're not perfect but the only bug I've run into is filtering the query history.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by paulryanrogers »

HatchedLake721 wrote: post #79
anhthang wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like SequelPro. The UI much simpler, powerful, but it's inactivated, nobody working on it to update for new macOS :(

Which is a big shame. I'm happy to $$$ pay for Sequel Pro, but it's been abandoned for 1-2 years now?

Last commit to master was 7 months ago. Judging by the pull request activity I'd say it's ripe for a community fork.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by paulryanrogers »

rubber_duck wrote: post #139
adventured wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 7 end of life began in January 2020. Around a quarter of all PCs are still running it. Remind me again what the EOL for Windows 95 was. "Even today, millions of PCs are still running Windows 7, and the operating system still runs on a massive 26 percent of all PCs according to data from Netmarketshare." https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21065122/microsoft-window...

That's EOL, it's been deprecated since 2015, if you're a developer using it and can't see why people can't bother supporting it I don't know what to say other than should we support XP since random PCs in China still run it ?

Windows 7 is still widely deployed in western markets which TablePlus appears geared toward. So it's a reasonable call-out IMO.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by nimchimpsky »

elamje wrote: post #117
jacurtis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using TablePlus for a long time now as well. I don't have any affiliation but started with their mac app. It was easily the best DB GUI out there. I like that you can use the same GUI for PostgreSQL, MYSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and SQLite (there are even more than this, but these are the ones I use). It is awesome to have one very powerful and well-maintained program for all my database needs. I can get proficie…

That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they could have native apps for 3 platforms that have this much functionality with that many employees. Anyone else have insight?

I mean its a db client, its not rocket science.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by armadsen »

tbrock wrote: post #25

Anyone know what this is built in/with? C++ & GTK?

I can confirm with a very little spelunking that the Mac app is a real native AppKit/Cocoa app. It appears to mostly be written in Swift, but also uses a fair amount of Objective-C. They've said publicly that the Windows version is written in C# and C/C++. Not sure what they did for Linux...
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