I think there are 3 dogs in this race: stay put; static languages; and dynamic languages.

I'm backing 2 of those dogs.

-- the enterprise apps I support written in VFP (+ tools), running against SQL Server, are being sold globally with increasing sales, and are being expanded. That dog is running a good race.

-- the dynamic language dog, run on any OS, run on any device, is just out of the gate, in terms of tools development. Cappucinno, Rhomobile, Pyjamas, Sencha with extJS. That's the dog I'm betting on in years to come. As John Ryan keeps (accurately) harping: it's about productivity. For our style of development, non-ORM, dynamic languages are a must. Native UI is not a must: we're business programmers, not game programmers. Although Angry Cursors would be an interesting concept for late some weekend night... <s> There are lots of developers here who have said they are as productive in .Net as they were in VFP, and I certainly can't disagree with their experience.. At the same time, there is no one here (or anywhere else I know) who used our tools for enterprise apps who has said anything but the opposite. Maybe that's just us, but my focus is just on us, not what's good for the entire world.

As for the static language dog, well, MS has done a great job of making themselves irrelevant to most of the web (the latest being the declaration that tablets are just a fad), and Oracle is doing its best to kill Java. Those are a couple of good looking dogs, but they look better than they run, and their odds are going up as more players cast their bets.

I should mention Servoy and Lianja: both are from very competent companies. I think you could call them the "monolithic dynamic framework" dog. For reasons I'm willing to discuss over a beer or two <s>, I'm not up for another monolithic framework. That said, both companies have done a great job. Oh, and then there's FoxInCloud, which sort of fits in with this category: another great product. My issue with that is I love Python so much, going back to VFP seems limiting. <s> But really, for me it's about the freedom to pick and choose.

Hank

>It's been a long time since I developed in VFP. When MS dedcided not to support VFP any longer, I made the switch to C#. Since then I haven't really had my finger on the pulse of the community as I did before.
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>My question is - what's the sense of folks out there? Is VFP still going strong? Are there alot of developers still writing new applications in VFP?