![]() Xojo started out twenty years ago as CrossBasic before Real Software Inc purchased the rights. It was modeled after the very successful Microsoft Visual Basic and those roots are still visible today. Xojo initially ran only on Macintosh but within a few years it ran on Windows. It now runs on Linux too. ![]() Xojo has been renamed multiple times first as REALbasic and then as Real Studio but in each name iteration it’s been the same product: a rapid application development platform and language that creates compiled desktop, console, and web applications native for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Not only in 32-bit but also for 64-bit. For a vast majority of users it really is as simple as checking a box captioned “Windows” to create a fully functioning Windows application that works the same as the one you’ve create on the Mac or in Linux. When it comes to software development tools and languages it seems that every time you turn around there is another programming language of the moment that is the hot, hot, HOT thing that everyone has to learn and then two years later it is relegated to old, has been, technology. Each one promises to make software development easier and faster and in most cases they solve A problem but not necessarily all problems. In reality, every development tool still requires a competent programmer to do some work – you get nothing for free. Xojo turns twenty years old in 2016. That’s an extraordinary feat not only for a business but even more as a development tool. The simple fact is that 90% of all businesses in the United States fail within two years. There’s a significant number of the remaining businesses that fail two years after that. Xojo has beaten the odds from a business standpoint.
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