

10 years ago! Back then, Xojo's goal with the Web framework was provide a tool for developing Web apps that looked like desktop apps. Think about this: Work on the original Web Framework started way back in 2009.

Of all of the changes that the Xojo team is working on, this is the one that I'm most excited about. Navigating larger projects will be easier, and we'll have more room to work on things. I've always felt that the Xojo IDE is terrific, but with this new UI, it seems like it's going to get even better. This will make it possible to drill down into an area of a project in one tab, and drill into another area in another tab. Tabs will continue to be supported, and what you see on a home screen will be unique to each tab. To get back to the home screen, you'll simply click a new Home icon in the navbar. When you're editing an object, the Library will be displayed on the left, and the Inspector will be displayed on the right. Double-clicking on an item (such as a window) will open the object for editing. It's being replaced with a new home screen that will show an overview of the project that you're working on and make it easy to navigate a project. The biggest change in the new IDE will be that the project navigator will no longer always be displayed. Geoff demonstrated a new Xojo IDE at XDC 2018, and it looked very interesting. This sounds amazing, and it could be yet another game changer for Xojo. The Xojo team's goal is to make it possible for us to develop plugins for Xojo in Xojo. Interops are coming in the new Android framework, but we'll also see them supported in iOS, and in macOS at some point as well. And I suspect it will also attract a lot of attention from developers in general, resulting in a number of new Xojo developers.Īt XDC 2018, Geoff Perlman, Xojo's founder and CEO, described interops as "declares on steroids." They're going to make Xojo, which is already very powerful and robust, even more so. This new target will open up a world of possibilities - and opportunities - to Xojo developers. Seriously though, I know that a lot of Xojo developers - myself included - have been looking forward to this for a long time. There's a lot of great things coming to Xojo this year.
