Visual FoxPro (Discontinued) vs. Python IDLE

Legacy applications already on VFP are a good candidate. If you plan to move to iOS and Android apps, VFP is not for you. Also, in future access to VFP programmers may be limited. You could use VFP as a powerful database tool. I know of many programmers who love to exploit the features of VFP to create easy to use applications.

IDLE is a good option to run small scripts directly on the console, and that's it. It is a good exit when you don't want or need to open a proper IDE like Pycharm.

Incentivized

• Treat data from files
• Reporting

Incentivized

• Firstly, I would say Python IDLE interface is user friendly.
• Easy to learn for the beginners.
• Syntax highlighting is nice features.
• Smart indent helps a lot.

Incentivized

• Microsoft stopped selling this and stopped supporting it in 2014. It still works on Windows 10, but if you have a problem, you are on your own.
• The look and feel of screens and displayed text is getting a little dated.
• It's really designed for desktop/server environments rather than the cloud.

Incentivized

• Too simplistic
• Could not find source revision management integration support
• Only basic debugging is available
• Does not have data-science-specific notebooks (but can be installed separately)

Incentivized

There are several easy to use and powerful features of VFP that programmers like.

The IDE Python IDLE is a good place to start as it helps you become familiar with the way Python works and understand its syntax.

This IDE allows you to configure the environment, font, size, colors, .....

It also looks like any simple text editor for any operating system, I work with Windows or Linux interchangeably, and you don't have to learn to use the IDE before programming.

Once the IDE is executed you can start programming directly in it.

Incentivized

Although MS has discontinued support of VFP there is a good community of programmers that are available for help. In fact we have several programmers at Apptread that are skilled not only in VFP but also .NET so that if there is a need to migrate some parts of applications to .NET , it is easy for us to do that.

Python IDLE support is what the community can give you. As it is free software, it does not have support provided by the manufacturer or by third-parties.

In any case, for most of the problems that normal users can find, the solution, or alternatives, can be found quickly online.

As this IDE is made in Python, the support is the same group of Python developers.

Incentivized

We are only using FoxPro because it is the only way to add custom plugins into the software we use to manage our stock. FoxPro is a semi-oriented object language and should clearly not be compared with recent technologies.

Incentivized

It's easy to set up and run quick analysis in Python IDLE on my local machine. The output is direct and easy to read. But sometimes I prefer Jupyter Notebook when the datasets are large, since it would take too long to run on my local machine. It is easier to run Jupyter Notebook on my cloud desktop

Incentivized

• Positive impact is that the value of FoxPro applications has continued to increase over the years, so we are in high demand for our services.
• Negative impact is that sometimes you have difficult to support scenarios where you might have to spend many hours to just keep something functional.
• A negative impact is that this language is taught in very few places, either in schools, or private learning centers.

Incentivized

• In a short time, we were able to develop several ML models for various teams to make accurate decisions.
• Beginners can easily understand and adapt to GUI.
• We could automate several manual validation tasks and so could reduce human intervention.

Incentivized