>>I will reiterate my statement. There's never been a tool like VFP. A one-time less than 20 MB install and it provides all of the functionality VFP does on a target machine. The ability to run ad-hoc commands in even the run-time version. You won't find another tool like it anywhere...
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>Hi Rick,
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>To compare VFP9 from 10+ years ago to WinDev today is like comparing a VW Golf to a Ferrari. Yes they both drive and get from point A to point B. But then there's a whole lot else as well. In our VFP apps (which we still have several of and in use) we use maybe 10 to 15 external 3rd party libraries. In WinDev and WebDev we need nothing at all from any 3rd party vendor, nothing. The suite of controls and tools offered in WinDev is extremely extensive. The built-in functionality is extremely extensive. And best of all, you can almost convert a VFP app to a WinDev app line-by-line - they are that similar. A VFP programmer can read WinDev code more or less straight off the bat. But, whatever, each to his own and each to whatever tool does the job they want doing!

VFP9 could've evolved into VFP10 and incorporated many of the features we've built custom libraries for. Apart from Microsoft Microsoftifying the tool, there's no reason why it would have to have many GB of code bloat. It could've been enhanced for an additional 10s of MB max, and we would have a powerful tool that is modern and maintains full backward compatibility. That's actually what I set out to do with Visual FreePro, Jr.

Even VFP3 is still very powerful.