Hi Dragan,

Count me on your side when it comes to MS behaviour in terms of customer support. But I pay credit when credit is due : win11 is a pleasant for good ol' VFP9 apps. I'd be unfair to say the opposite! But sure I try hard to replace MS stuff like quite a few here on the UT.

I am on my way onto a python+QT platform. But that's a "long and winding road" since I am not certainly looking to replace VFP but to bring to life applications you just could not consider in the VFP+Win-whatever-the-version world.

I am currently thrilled by the recent duckdb+pyarrow combination as a replacement for rushmore when it comes to handling r-e-a-l-l-y large sets of data. A replacement? Well much more than that: duckdb can deliver incredible levels of sql-based data mangling performances on a single machine :-)

Loading millions of records into an in-memory sql workhorse you can build from scratch within a bunch of seconds at most. I can do things I could never imagine doing a fox guy. There are still a few things that rushmore does better than duckdb. But, man, handling literally millions of data (and more should you need of course) within a calculation workhorse on some standard workstation app, in a snap, what a thrill.

I expect to be able to run my PC as a full-time toaster in the way some of the games my kids are playing do via multiprocessing (duckdb+ engine) in a way my VFP applications never did!

Daniel