> Losing Peach really sucks though… she was very helpful and provided a really positive environment here.
Ditto that.
Learning Lua has been the highlight of my time with Corona SDK. I’ve learned multiple languages since I started programming in the mid-80s and none of them have been as awesome as Lua.
Jay
PS - 6502 assembly language comes a close second on my “most awesome” list but for very different reasons. 
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Both Rob and Brent have been helping countless number of people (including myself) even before they were hired by Corona to work on helping other people. I mean, they’ve been donating their time, volunteering their precious time, to be so helpful on Forum – and they are super helpful. Honestly and amazingly so. And, not only that, I see countless number of other people doing the same. (I try to help sometimes out of pure gratitude for others who helped me before, and hoping those who are helped would help others down the road.)
Losing visible Corona staff does hurt, and I hope we won’t be losing anymore (especially the engineers who are super dedicated to make Corona better everyday) – but I don’t think losing staff members would mean the demise of the company. Not at this time anyhow, especially since they just closed a new round of investment to grow the company.
And as with anyone using Corona, I’d continue to use it until it is no longer viable (which I don’t think would be anytime soon – and I hope it will remain viable forever.)
Meanwhile I’ve learned not only how to code but also how to find solutions to every roadblock I’ve encountered along the way (i.e., which means never giving up and relentlessly & diligently look for solution everywhere.) In my case, I didn’t just learn how to code in Lua but also how to deal with mySQL database, code in PHP and get the app talking to the backend server. When I picked up Corona last year, I wouldn’t have imagined I’d be migrating a database from one server to another on my own using terminal command – but I have learned I can do what I need to do with the help of internet and amazing resources available in front of us (which includes amazing number of helpful people, whether they are paid to help or volunteering their time to help.) What Corona SDK and its community gave me is the confidence that so long as I’m willing to work at it, I can get things done. (At least I’m not doing anything that requires a brain of a rocket scientist, so hey, thank you all for giving me this confidence.)
So, I’d like to say it really isn’t so important to worry about the future of Corona. If you are starting out to become a programmer, what’s important is to learn how to debug your code, how to find answers to your questions, how to be diligent and how to persevere. What you really need to worry about is how committed you are about learning new language and how willing you are to work hard at it. (And programming language is a lot easier and faster to learn than learning any foreign language, I assure you.)
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@Naomi
Your closing statement is 100% spot-on!
Don’t worry, be coding. Corona isn’t going to go ‘poof’ anytime soon.
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peach’s help was always advance way. Nothing is eternal if peach is not there some one else will be replace on that place. We can see in future,
thanks
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Corona won’t go away just because some (cool, no doubt about that) employees left because of different views. After all we use this product because of its features not the people who help the community, no matter how much they helped everyone out.
The only concern is if we can make good apps (and we can with the existing apis) and properly monetize our apps (still problematic). It’s been a long waiting for new monetizing implementations, but as the blog post that DavidRangel pointed out says, Project Gluon is a new solution on adding new features easily.
I hope it will be available soon and with lots of implementations for monetization methods. With this Corona SDK will truly be without competition in 2d games. [import]uid: 70003 topic_id: 33978 reply_id: 135244[/import]
Has anyone from Corona commented in this thread yet?
If the worst case scenario does happen - that Corona goes belly up… I suppose it wouldn’t be too difficult to transition to another SDK. [import]uid: 141560 topic_id: 33978 reply_id: 135248[/import]
This sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Come on ppl we all gonna be fine corona not going anywhere cause of a few ppl leaving [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 33978 reply_id: 135254[/import]
The fact that all of Peach’s tutorials have been removed fro learningcorona.com is a huge, huge, setback for me personally. Those were the best tutorials out there. I should have downloaded them all…
Does anyone have them?? I need tutorials!
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It is clear that Peach has a soft spot for Carlos, it is no surprise that Peach has let after Carlos left. Good on Carlos for building another startup but I am confident in CoronaLabs.
Until CoronaLabs start messing with builds big time and screwing things up Im staying right here.
Good luck Peach, it’s sad that you left throwing daggers at CoronaLabs.
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That was a big bummer for me as well… I have all of them. I’ll give you a hint on how I got them.
Google Cache 
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peach’s help was always advance way. Nothing is eternal if peach is not there some one else will be replace on that place. We can see in future,
thanks
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i agree Corona is not going anywhere but I wish they would support windows 8 pc’s and devices…
Larry
For me, Naomi pretty much summed everything up. Nice post
I feel optimistic about the future of Corona.
Also, Brent and Rob have been been exceptionally helpful to me on the forum, thanks to them and to all the other forum members that are so helpful
i agree Corona is not going anywhere but I wish they would support windows 8 pc’s and devices…
Larry
For me, Naomi pretty much summed everything up. Nice post
I feel optimistic about the future of Corona.
Also, Brent and Rob have been been exceptionally helpful to me on the forum, thanks to them and to all the other forum members that are so helpful