Everyone - I want to address some of the points in this thread with 4 quick comments:
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The first is around future roadmap. As Walter wrote very recently, we will soon have a public roadmap and much more transparency about what is being built next. We are right in the middle of planning around this, but it is coming. Bear with us for a bit longer.
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We don’t see a dichotomy between serving beginner developers and advanced developers. We are doing both already. And while we are getting demand from large studios (hence Corona Enterprise), this work will also benefit smaller developers. More to come on this as well.
These 2 are about the talk around Gideros and our perceived weaknesses. People above have mentioned:
- Corona builds that touch our servers - this has not been a real issue with any developer so far. While we agree that, in theory, some developers may perceive risk here, we don’t think that is warranted for the following reasons:
- We have a very good track record of uptime
- We do not take possession of any graphic assets or raw code, so your IP is safe
- The company is strong financially and is not going anywhere
Furthermore, this way of building gives us significant advantages, especially in 2 areas:
- We can make certain updates much more nimbly and without requiring developers to download new software to their computers
- We will be able to provide a very strong developer experience around certain services coming down the road. We have done little here, but there are exciting things coming.
- Native code integration - this is something that we are working on and will expose relatively soon. So we are not shying away from doing it - it just takes time to do these things correctly. As mentioned above, stay tuned
That’s it for now. Hope this helps. I don’t intend to engage on a big discussion since we have a lot to work on But I thought this could inform the discussion.
Thanks everyone.
David [import]uid: 10668 topic_id: 24782 reply_id: 101395[/import]