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>>They have also been around 25+ years and thousands of line-of-business apps have been developed in it. Mainly in Europe though as that has been their focus area and home-ground.
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>I am perhaps overly sceptic of automatic translation/generation (mostly for the ballooning testing needed), but I prefer the "library" concept even if I realize that the interpreter implementation on each device needs to be tested as well. Being around for long time certainly helps in respect to having debugged code if they do not introduce too many errors in new versions into previously errorfree code - don't mind errors in new stuff to be ironed out till next release.

Speaking of bugs and new versions etc. - I think its also important to note that PCSoft the company and WinDev the application development platform have been around 25+ years. WebDev more recently and WinDev Mobile for obvious reasons even more recently. But the basic application development IDE, the language, the compilers, tools, etc. have been in actual service by tens of thousands of developers for very many years, in many industries and many countries.