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The Ultimate IDE/Compiler combo for Rapid Application Development

The Ultimate IDE/Compiler combo for Rapid Application Development

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Feb 20, 2023
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Is it possible to find a complete IDE with integrated compiler and lifetime upgrade support for Windows, Linux, OS X and Raspberry for one single payment of $100 USD? This environment includes a complete set of GUI widgets that are fully documented and very easy to implement. Furthermore, this IDE/Compiler is feature complete, has been in existence for 20 years undergoing continuous free upgrades, is easy to use and produces very fast, small and efficient executable code. There is a community with it as well and many users use it to sell their commercial applications.

The makers of this environment are not a big corporation or an ad hoc group of developers working on a hobby project. This is a small team of developers who are highly skilled and have been producing versions of this system for 20 years! They give lifetime upgrade support for the one low purchase price. That means the first purchaser of the product 20 years ago still receives the latest version for free today! I have no affiliation with the developers whatsoever however when I acquired the product as a normal users without receiving any incentive or communication from the developers in any way, I was amazed at the quality.

This sounds like a dream. I personally have been searching for such a setup for decades and when I bit the bullet and acquired this IDE/Compiler I was amazed at the quality and wished I had purchased it years ago when I first came across it but passed it over. In this article I will give you the name and a deep dive review into this product and point you to where you can purchase it. With just basic programming skills and this environment you can produce professional applications or games for all of these platforms. Please note, all my development efforts with it so far have been on Windows but I have no reason to doubt it will work on all advertised platforms. I have personally used it to create a middle ware tcp solution that routes custom formatted HTTP calls to remote business objects residing in a different process across a network (works across the Internet or across your LAN). In one instance I created a network rendering farm system with it as the control layer with GUI. In another I did a proof of concept with it as the central network controller in a massive multiplayer online game framework.

The GUI tools provided are one of the main advantages of this product over free alternatives as coding this GUI system is a breeze with all the widgets you could require that are fully documented, with examples for many of them. I have used most free and commercial GUI systems in my consulting and development work over the years. This product takes a unique approach to GUI design, providing a Forms designer but also supporting ad hoc control placement via code entries directly in demanding application cores such as tcp/http servers, etc. This immediate mode GUI style has been used in several products before but nowhere near as simple and well documented as this product. This environment gets my 5/5 star rating. Continue reading to get the details. Depending upon subscriber interest I will produce a series of articles on this system handling user requests on how to use it to its fullest.

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