@thecreativeone91 said:

Why don't we just make all applications in Machine code while were at it. Who needs to deal with the OS or frameworks. Just manage it all.

That's the way nature intended, and enough already with this damn Internet fad, BBSes had a real sense of community, so let's turn off the Internet and go back to what truly matters... and 16bit.

http://www.zazzle.co.nz/adobe+flash+mugs

@scottalanmiller said:

Doesn't look too exciting as an update.

The guys own commentary is kind of amusing.

@QuixoticAndy said:

@lance Are you using Visual Studio? That's had background compilation since 2005. 🙂 Edit: Never mind, just saw that you are.

A lot of IDEs had this for even longer 😉 At any rate Microsoft really pioneered the hell out of this with Visual Studio 97, though primarily associated with Visual Basic 5 and beyond.

I know some people starting to use Go and really liking it.

I use RubyMine daily now and love it. JetBrains makes some of my favourite stuff.

@tonyshowoff said:

@JaredBusch It reminds me a lot of Java meets BASIC, with a dash of Pascal. It's not a bad language, but I prefer C-style languages, my brain just works better with them. Lua is a decent language though.

I'm the same way, C-style works with my brain.

Hey awesome, great idea. Now go make a Lua one!

@scottalanmiller This is awesome! Thanks!

Just emailed this to Haine (my 6yo) I suspect this will be our after school activity tonorrow.

For modern application development your first thoughts should always be Ruby, PHP and Python with JavaScript and a few others as possibilities but far less likely. As a non-dedicated software engineering team Ruby, PHP and Python should be your go to answers.

Of those, PHP is the easiest, Ruby the most powerful, Python the easiest to maintain and the fastest in performance.