>Coming from what happened to VFP, I am banking that Ed Leafe and Paul McNett have what it takes to not repeat history. =)

They have written themselves a nice alternative to vfp capabilities using python, including SQL-queryable biz layer [which is one of the points heavily underestimated IMHO when comparing vfp to other environments]. They wrote the tool to the ecological niche they saw for them, which has linux desktop higher than I currently do, which is different just by being in the states [more java over here, sigh] and probably their client structure.

>In their video, they initially chose wxPython simply because it looks the most native in all 3 major OS's. They wrapped the UI part of their framework around wxPython (because it is too C) to make it more Pythonic.

I see the reason for this quite well, but in practice concentration on one package easily "taints" your class/api structure as you have to get things done. They have been stricter than I probably would have been, but I guess implementing another needed toolkit will shake up the existing code - you cannot just "fill in the blanks" as in the templates for another SQL backend, if you read those parts of the source. From what I read wx has a half-baked Dotnet-implementation [if you target Ironpython, which is easier sold to enterprize clients] and nothing solid on the android/iOS side yet.

It is part of the reason I read up more on javascipt - the language is less balanced IMHO, but the compiler versions are in many tasks faster than Python by now and if serverside-JS aka node.js gets traction, having one set of code in front- and backend will help in the way I want to develop.

>They stressed however, that the other GUI toolkits will also be implemented in the future. Their upcoming version 1.00 roadmap looks promising - IDE's coming up.

For me the ability to hook/map into django or turbogears reusing the biz layer and possibly a wizard-like transformation of the existing GUI are more interesting than a IDE - but I am usually doing middle and back end work anyway, so my take on such things is really tainted ;-)

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>If you don't mind, aside from VFP, what other development stuff are you currently using?

minimal C maintainance, some java, some SQL, fixing up bits of C#, lately less in statistics and datamining -
python/Jython only as I wanted to try it for small encapsulated things I had free hand over -
billed to an estimate and did it in python as a learning experience. Would do that again,
as the language is really fun to develop in.

regards

thomas