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Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 8:11 PM UTC

>"Please note: Macaw v1 for Mac OS X should be ready to roll in January 2014. We have already started on a PC version, but it may take a couple extra months to polish up." //

Bah. Pet hate - Mac OS X runs on PCs.

Presumably they mean an MS Windows [8?] version? Wish people would be upfront about this it's silly having to hunt around to find if they're supporting Linux.

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by rfnslyr » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #8

rfnslyr wrote: post #6

It's so much easier and rewarding to just learn the basic code to structure a webpage. What if I don't really know much web dev, but master this tool? Where will that get me? "So it shows here you've developed 8 websites for clients, wow, what does your stack look like?" "Oh I kinda just mastered this one specific tool, I don't really know how to code." Reminds me of Dreamweaver days.

Is this opinion this generation's version of "Real men only write code in (C|assembly|Fortran)"?

Not really since you can code just as well in other languages, but with tools like these, we've seen them built and we've seen how bad they were. Just going off experience.

Re: Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

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Post by foxhedgehog » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

Segmentation wrote: post #23

Designers, what is M∀CAW still missing? (serious answers please)

export to less / sass / stylus; read in existing projects; support for compilation applications like brunch.io; support for scripting: js, cs, etc.