>The community is not growing, it is shrinking. My guess! You constantly hear words like "I'm adding more tools to my toolbox...", "it's good to learn new technologies, not just VFP..." etc etc. For me all that are euphemisms for "I'm leaving!!!".
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>While other tools are incorporating new functionalities, features, technologies etc, seems to me that VFP developers need to add "more tools" to their toolbox to do the same. (I know what's in VFP 7, I bought the book "What's New in Visual FoxPro 7.0" to learn about, and...?) There will be a time in the near future that you'll leave VFP and will stay with the "other tools". This is the way I see things are evolving.

Delphi developers for example. I was able to talk to my friend who happens to be Delphier and I asked him what particular VS.Net language will he be using, and he quickly answered: "no need to learn another one coz Borland will be releasing Delphi.Net." He feels secured because the tool he is using can play natively in the .NET arena without learning another one.