>>>Nothing has changed but our thoughts. VFP is as good as it was yesterday and you and I are only one day older. Carry on.
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>>Totally true. Even better, perhaps, as more an more of the product is in the hands of the community, and... well, you know how this community works.
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>I have not really kept up with SednaX and other community efforts, so forgive the possible ignorance of this question. Is it really true that "more and more of the product is in the hands of the community"? I thought the core functionality of VFP remains in the hands of Microsoft and that the community efforts are extensions. The extenders can't take the whole product forward, can they?

Not everything, but you can extend the report designer and producer, most of the IDE, the whole windows forms, toolbars and menus, the project management, and a lot more. What is sealed at the core is the data engine, the main language, and a few more things, which I'd really prefer no one messing up with.

There is a lot of room for extensibility, as the Sedna project itself, and VFP X, show.