>>>WinDev does that just as easy as VFP, easier actually.
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>You can copy a handful of files to a Windows machine and it will work?

Yes and more. WinDev includes every 3rd party tool I have ever had to buy in addition to VFP including a full setup installer. But that is not even needed; you can indeed just copy the EXE and a few DLLs over to a folder and run it. I have been able to reproduce our VFP apps into WinDev in +/-6 months and now the WD environment makes us literally 5x (or more) productive.

My argument or suggestion for moving off VFP has nothing to do with a particular destination tool. I am not arguing for WD vs. .Net or Python or whatever. I am suggesting VFP developers move off VFP because modern day developer tools are so fantastically more productive than VFP.


>Good- but still it will be called a niche product by people who want you to deploy NET.

Makes no difference to our business. There was once a time when clients (institutional clients) would ask what something was written in but we have not been asked that for several years now. I perceive a move in power from IT departments to end-users where end-users say whether they want a product or not and IT must just make it happen. I have noticed this happening over the past 4 or 5 years or so.