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True. Years ago, some FoxPro developers tried to translate their experience in building apps with FoxPro to python. Check the Dabo project. It appears to be dead, though. https://github.com/dabodev/dabo
I think is time to revive the spirit of this family of languages.
I'm working solo towards it.
Today things get more complicated because is necessary to cover all major 6 platforms (web, windows, linux, osx, ios, android) to keep the "small bussiness/solo freelancer" friendly usage.
I work in a language that is inspired and augmented by other ideas at https://tablam.org. I will make my first attempt at UI building this year, with the full intention of work across all platform with native controls (plan to render tags in each).
Then have sqlite as the default db, then connectors for others.
Wanna join? Is fun!
If someone wants to build something similar and open sourced for modern interfaces, count me in. I built ui-editor that can generate code for reactjs and I want to work on something big.
Here is my project https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor
Quick shoutout to xHarbour and Harbour - the open-source, commercially-supported versions of Clipper. https://github.com/harbour/core
The projects are still going strong and many years ago I had ported a huge Clipper project into Harbour and had it working well across a 20 node network with both Clipper and Harbour binaries working simultaneously on the same database.
These days every time I make another web application I wish for the simplicity of xBase. But there is some core truth about application development hidden there that is lost to me now.
By orders of magnitude, my most popular open source release was a project to help people migrate from FoxPro to PostgreSQL: https://github.com/kstrauser/pgdbf
FoxPro was cool for desktop apps, but couldn’t make the leap to networked clients, where “networked” was more than “has access to the file share where the database files live”.
In the early 2000s I was hired to write a website that published reports from data stored in a Visual FoxPro database. A not-so-fun fact I learned: the VFP database libraries are single-threaded at the OS level. That is, you couldn’t run more than one query on the same machine at the same time, even in different processes. One would block until another finished. In a fit a panic and madness, I ended up writing an XMLRPC service (“which was the style at the time”) in Python, deploying it to multiple old Windows XP desktops we had laying around, and writing a database adapter for the web server that would send queries to those servers round-robin. Need more parallelism? Add another Windows XP box running my janky little service. It was awful, but it let us ship the project.
Later I wrote pgdbf so that we could run a cron job that would copy all our data out of FoxPro into PostgreSQL so that I could code against a real multi-user database that was vastly better in every way. By accident, I released it at a time when the world was wondering how they were going to migrate from FoxPro to something else. Turns out VFP was wildly popular in South America, and pgdbf turned out to be wildly popular there too, which let to me getting lots of email in Spanish and Portuguese and offers to come talk at user groups. I turned those down because what was I gonna say, “yeah, it was painful for me, too. Anyway, here you go and good luck!”?