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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
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On 03/07/2024 19:33, Michael S wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:58:32 +0100
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Windows itself is primarily a consumer product not a DIY OS as Linux
>> comes across.
>>
>> Although I wouldn't mind if some of those were available; they would
>> take up an insignificant amount of space compared to the rest of
>> Windows. And would open interesting possibilities, such as supplying
>> some programs as source code.
>>
>> It also needs a better built-in scripting language than 'BAT' scripts.
> 
> Windows is primarily a corporate product and only secondarily consumer.
> I suppose, with good degree of certainty, that few important corporate
> clients will veto any attempt of Microsoft to provide compilers by
> default or even with non-default, but easy to check checkbox during
> installation.
> I'd think, few of them already quite unhappy because of default
> presence of powerful scripting engines.
> 
Yes, that's the way it has gone.

Microsoft PCs used to be used by hobby programmers, but that use has 
gradually shrunk. There are still probably quite a few in absolute 
terms, but it isn't the platform of choice as it was.

Then Javascript is in many ways a more attractive option than a native 
executable, becuase you can deploy it whereever you have a website.

I've only got two active Windows projects apart from Baby X, which is a 
special case as it's a cross-platform toolkit. They are Crossword 
Designer and Egyptian Senet. And it's hard to deploy them. And the free 
compiler is now very good and that is no longer an issue. But there 
isn't an accessible infrastructure like there was for distributing 
exectables. And it's all geared for corporate use, or for gamers who 
want to play big titles.

-- 
Check out my hobby project.
http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc