>>I am confused why anyone would go to a niche product which is also not 100% ready plus only has a short life history. WinDev is niche compared to .Net but is totally ready (now on version 17), is cross platform (Windows, Linux, Apple, web, mobile), can integrate 3rd party languages including .Net, has 20+ years in development, extensive documentation, used by large corporates and tens of thousands of developers right now. In my line the niche aspect is not a problem but I dont want to be messing around with beta / initial versions and waiting for promises to be fullfilled.
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>I agree with you, but once upon a time there was a niche product called Foxpro...

Actually, if you consider Foxpro ( i.e. Foxpro for Windows ) was just the logical development of Foxbase which was hardly niche in that it ran Dbase III code without alteration and at the time that was about as mainstream as you could get in the PC world.

Fox went from major play to a niche and the only reason people can still make a living with it is that there is legacy work that originated when it was not niche.

I get why someone would want to seek out cross platform solutions and it is no big deal to learn Java if you know C# and that opens up a whole lot.

But I also understand the argument that seeking out increasingly esoteric development solutions might be a lot of fun but doesn't seem to me a very good way to make money or to leverage the work of others.