>I played around with this a couple of months ago. It seems kinda cool - but geeze what are the odds of finding a job using this? I suppose if you were doing you're own thing it could be used - but if you ever had to hire someone to help you I'd expect it to be hard to find anyone with experience with it.
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>>As my title states, if you're still looking for a migration path from Visual Foxpro to something else, I would strongly suggest looking at RealStudio (formerly Realbasic, which is the language that it uses). I've been working with it for the last year and now starting to put into work developing applications.
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>>Here's a couple of little know facts.
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>>RealStudio is written in Realbasic. Fully object oriented and multi-threaded.
>>Microsoft uses Realbasic to prototype Office for Mac in their own development community.
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>>Some of the short comings of previous versions have been eliminated. They now have a built-in report writer, although 3rd party products seem to offer more features.
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>>Built-in database (SQLite 3), however, it is recommended for single-user applications. They offer RealSQLServer for multi-user applications; however, there are other databases supported by RealStudio. If you develop an application using RealSQL database, you can jump to one of the other supported databases without re-coding. Very cool.
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>>Additionally, RealStudio allows you to develop applications that are cross-platform without a lot of additional programming. And when I say cross-platform, I mean Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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>>There's a lot to like in RealStudio and they have a 30 day demo; but it will take a bit longer than that to get your feet wet. I looked at .NET, but RealStudio creates executables that don't require a runtime or a multitude of DLL dependencies. You can literally develop an application for Windows (or the other cross platforms) that you can copy to a folder and run.
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>>If you're looking for a product that provides the same flexibility and speed of development (and then some) that we came to love in VFP, then I would highly recommend RealStudio. The built-in classes allow you to do almost anything you could dream of. VB programmers should feel right at home.

They host a forum with plenty of users offering advice and support.

it doesn't take that long to pickup and has a very mild learning curve. You don't have to put all your marbles in one basket (ala .NET) and you don't have to worry about getting burned by MS in the long run. It's happened to me one too many times.

And their cross platform support is pretty darn good. Beats the heck out of learning C# and Objective C or trying to use Mono.

Their remote debugging option allows you to develop in one platform, such as OSX and run the same code on Windows (say through Parallels or VMWare). No surprises when you try to run in the other OS because you can test it anytime in seconds. I've never seen anything like it or so simple.