Chrome or Desktop? Plus other questions.

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

I was briefly tempted by Moai but as soon as I tried to register I got turned off when their security question was a question that could not be answered who didn’t ALREADY know about Moai.  “Where does the word Moai originally come from?”  I even looked online found nothing.  Nothing in their documentation either.  REALLY PI**ED me off.  haha

Anyway, it brought up quite a questions that I wanted to ask.  Most can only be answered by you all.

  1. I read that originally you all did not have many workers so you call could not work on more major upgrade at a time.  Has being bought made any change in that situation?  When a company buys another usually one of three things happen.  a) They kill the product because they want their existing product to move forward, b) they keep the status quo.  c) They hire more people and move it along faster.  I hope c, but can you confirm?

  2. Is there a way you can offer especially for those us that either live in a 3rd world country (like me), are students or are indie developers offer your basic, pro and enterprise free with splash screen, watermark or some other method that will prevent it from being accepted to the stores?  This would be advantageous for both of us.  Us: Because it gives us the opportunity to learn HOW to do the things, especially calling C, etc from the program.  I have 8 years of C/Unix experience but have no idea how to call it from Corona.  Yes, we can “read” about it.  But, for some of us coders, we “need” to try it to learn.  Then we can see just how beneficial it is and we won’t be scared to buy to buy the product because we already have a product ready, just need to buy the product to get the watermark or splash screen off.  Benefits you since you bill by the year anyway!  So, you might get more indie’s who pay for it after they have learned how to use all the nice abilities you add.

  3. I read that Moai was so much faster than Corona.  Of course, that statement was about a year ago.  Is it still true?  Do you have any “specs” to show the speed comparison?  I know Corona is much faster to learn.  But, the games, can they be more powerful/faster in Moai?

  4. Are you considering porting to desktop?  For example Moai ports to Chrome. 

  5. Do you have any RECENT data/charts that shows the comparison between Corona, Moai, others that still exist.  I read that some have “given up”.  I hope that Corona is solid financially because I like it so far.  Especially when you have excellent helpers like Nick Sherman around. :slight_smile:

  6. I was reading info about number of items in a list.  Lua provides a VERY fast way.  Yet, you all said, if I remember correctly it amounted to going through the items one at a time.  ie very slow.  Is there any reason why you did that?  Why can’t you give us the same that Lua provides or is that eccentually what Lua does and I didn’t know that?  Perhaps you are not worried about it since it is doubtful there will be 10’s of thousands of elements in a table for a mobile app.

  7. I really wish you all could “convince” some of these BIG Universities like MIT or Harvard to adopt your product in their classes!  Then maybe they would offer them online :slight_smile:

Thank you for your time and consideration - especially if you think seriously on #2.

Thanks!