In my endeavors to learn this tool, I continuously find bugs - one after the other, and consequently find myself submitting many bug reports to support. I shouldn't be finding them with this frequency... As most of these bugs present themselves while using a5 at a beginner / intermediate level!
How can this be? Obviously, these bugs I continue to find may not be "project stopping" and many are quite benign in nature. But in the great scheme of things, it's probably no wonder why many serious developers avoid using this tool.
I've always thought that this tool has great potential. The developer(s) of a5 show great talent. BUT I always end up with reservations.....
All the little stuff adds up, and thus makes me leery with regards to pursuing x-basic (and this tool) at any great depth. This has been an ongoing dilemma I have contemplated throughout many different version releases of a5. Each time, I finally end up "just walking away" thinking "I'm going to wait, and hopefully the next version will be much cleaner.
After all, this is a5 version 9, which has been out for for quite some time. How is it that I find all these issues that have never been corrected? Sure it's great we can finally connect to any back-end database as if it's "a5 native." But what about fixing all the "simple little things" that don't work as presented in the gui? It never seems to happen.
If not corrected before it's too late, I'm afraid the eventuality of all of this will lead to a "dead-end" product. It's got to be a quality control issue. (And by no means am I bashing the product. As I stated earlier, it's got HUGE potential!)
I give a5 a thumbs up to features and overall performance. And I can live with the "eccentrics" of the gui which many other users complain about in these forums. But as for quality control, that's a different story....
Any thoughts out there?
How can this be? Obviously, these bugs I continue to find may not be "project stopping" and many are quite benign in nature. But in the great scheme of things, it's probably no wonder why many serious developers avoid using this tool.
I've always thought that this tool has great potential. The developer(s) of a5 show great talent. BUT I always end up with reservations.....
All the little stuff adds up, and thus makes me leery with regards to pursuing x-basic (and this tool) at any great depth. This has been an ongoing dilemma I have contemplated throughout many different version releases of a5. Each time, I finally end up "just walking away" thinking "I'm going to wait, and hopefully the next version will be much cleaner.
After all, this is a5 version 9, which has been out for for quite some time. How is it that I find all these issues that have never been corrected? Sure it's great we can finally connect to any back-end database as if it's "a5 native." But what about fixing all the "simple little things" that don't work as presented in the gui? It never seems to happen.
If not corrected before it's too late, I'm afraid the eventuality of all of this will lead to a "dead-end" product. It's got to be a quality control issue. (And by no means am I bashing the product. As I stated earlier, it's got HUGE potential!)
I give a5 a thumbs up to features and overall performance. And I can live with the "eccentrics" of the gui which many other users complain about in these forums. But as for quality control, that's a different story....
Any thoughts out there?
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