>Hi Dragan,
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>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.
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>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'm also playing with Python - mainly because it's Unicode and platform independent. I'm using the (almost, but not quite) abandoned project Dabo, which gives me most of the Fox stuff (controls with controlsource!) - of course, it was written by two Foxen (Paul McNett and Ed Leafe; presently, John Fabiani is quite active there), so it sure speaks my language.

>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 :-)

I wonder if the duckdb interface/classes/library/whatever shape it may have - if it would possibly become another datasource for Dabo's bizobjects. I don't know how that would work, and sure enough don't speak enough Python to try that myself. Programming in retirement is so much slower, as I find zillion other things to do between the monthly coding sessions.

I'm using postgresql, but for what I use it for (one database with a dozen tables, with less than 10k record in the main, and perhaps up to ten times as much in various links between the records) is too little to be considered relevant as a test. It's as fast as I expected it to be.