wxWidgets and a dark future

[Jackdaw]

So I take from you two that bmx ng isn't in a worthwhile state. I was really hoping for it.

Let's say that I wouldn't be investing time or effort developing anything serious with it.

BTW how did you come to this conclusion?

First by how much of a pain in the arse it's going to be to setup and use. On Windows, not much trouble. On Linux, you have to create a system link to a GTK library. And on macOS....

Well macOS that's the big one, and that depends on:

• If you're using an Intel, or an Apple Silicon.
• The version of xcode.
• The version of macOS installed.

On my iMac M4, running macOS Sequoia and xcode 16.2. I had to build it from scratch, with adding my own fixes to get it to build. Debugging is iffy, and the base Max2D stuff appears to work still, but I suspect that it still using the last OpenGL that Apple supported. As for MaxGUI, that is a lost cause. Unless it gets a big update.

The second thing is "How often is it updated". All you have to do is look at the github sources to answer that question.

The third is that the documentation is all over the place and not very clear. And for support, other than the Discord channel and github issues tracker, there isn't much else.

[MikeHart]

Thanks Jason for the info.

[Baggey]

If anything. It needs to be written from scratch again. And not using BlitzMax as the bootstrap, but a common free compiler that can be used for a bootstrap.

Im doing this 

[Jackdaw]

Thanks Jaspn for the info.

No problems Mike. Brucey did his best with BlitzMax-NG, but he's only one man that tried, or still trying to keep it afloat. As I stated in the previous post. It really needs a dedicated team and funding to try keep it up to date and cross platform.

[Jackdaw]

If anything. It needs to be written from scratch again. And not using BlitzMax as the bootstrap, but a common free compiler that can be used for a bootstrap.

Im doing this 

I was thinking of something similar. Using java and ANTLR4. The real fun bit with ANTLR is trying to write the grammar files.