This post is from an exchange on the Deviantart website:
https://yereverluvinuncleber.deviantart.com/journal/Is-Xwidget-really-dead-It-seems-not-728480739Imagine Tony, if you will, that you had given a few of us your source code and build tools. That would have meant that by now, over these missing years that the majority of the bugs would have been fixed, some of the missing functionality would have been provided and the Xwidget IDE would be a much more usable and friendly tool.
It does not matter that Xwidgets is your baby, it does not matter that others would see your code and pass judgement, none of that matters. What would have been great is if you had made xwidgets available to the community so that they could take it forward in your absence. Those bugs being fixed would free you to work on the things you want to work on, you could focus your energies on the Android version whilst providing mentoring and help on the Xwidget IDE.
If you want to move on in a sensible way then make the xwidget IDE and engine for the desktop open source and start bringing others in to help you!
I suggested this from the very start:
http://bbs.xwidget.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5878It doesn't stop you receiving donations and it does not limit you in any way. You can monetise Xwidget Android whilst making Xwidget desktop IDE the de facto development tool for widgets.
There is one thing you are really missing out on. The Xwidget engine is the ONLY tool putting javascript back on the desktop. NODE.js and all those other desktop frameworks are complicated and tricky to configure and use. Xwidget could be the best desktop javascript solution and an industry standard if you would only FIX IT!
It needs a decent IDE and a proper javascript implementation, functions in code, foreach loops, support for the NEW statement with regard to image objects &c &c.
New and updated cores - we can provide some of this! Just give us the code, the build tools and examples and we'll assist where we can.
We have a bug list and a suggestion list. I raise bugs and suggestions, I even raise polyfill code in javascript to fix things. Do you think that by now three years later I would not have solved some of these bugs and fed them back to Xwidgets?
There is me - and there ar others that would have helped! It has been years and it is time to take the help offered. You must work on the things that interest you, Xwidget & rainmeter integration, Xwidget for Android but you are one man and you are spread too thin. You ALWAYS try to do too much. You cannot succeed on all of these.
If you have to abandon the desktop Xwidget IDE and engine then do so - but give it to US so we can fix it without you. You can retain control through being the lead developer and having knowledge of what your code does. No-one is going to supplant you!
Xwidget will remain your baby - You can focus on the new stuff.
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