REAL Studio 2012 Release 2.1 user reviews

I've been a REAL basic (now REAL Studio) user for about 6 years now and I have to say that it's a real pleasure to code in. The speed with which you can get a native application up and running is extremely impressive.

One of it's strengths is always touted that its cross platform although to be joneses, anything more than a simple app is likely going to take quite a bit of fiddling to compile and function properly on both Windows and Mac.

To put quite simply, REAL basic is the only reason I continue to code for a hobby.

People should be aware that RealBasic is *not* backwards compatible--if you write a program in RealBasic, it won't even open in the version they put out 5 years from now. My library of hundreds of RealBasic programs (that were written between 2001 and 2005) is totally useless now because none of them will open in the 2008 and 2009 versions (I've talked to RealBasic staff about this and they claim that this phenomenon is totally normal...sure it is).