Developers are back, work on 2.0 begins!
It looks like I'm finally starting to get more free time, so I'm here to announce that we'll be back in the next few weeks. I'd also like to mention that we're working on 2.0 as well.
For us, 1.0 wasn't our best work, being the perfectionists we are. That's why we're now working on planning out 2.0. We have ideas set that we want to do, so now we're working toward actually working out the technical side of it.
The main difference between 1.0 and 2.0 will be that 2.0 will be Python based. We may come out with a PHP version of it, but it's unlikely. We mainly chose this because we want to write great software, and PHP limits what we can do, as well as slows down development time. We'll be able to do more with Python. It's unfortunate, and I know many of you will be disappointed that you won't be able to use 2.0 on a PHP host, but we have some plans for a free public server, so you'll still be able to use 2.0.
We'll probably announce more as we go. All I'll say right now is that 2.0 will take Lucid in a very different direction, hopefully for the better. We're really happy with what we've planned right now, and we can't wait to show off an implementation.
Posted by Will Riley on February 2, 2010
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Will Riley February 4, 2010 at 8:43 p.m.
@Stoyan Cheresharov: I'll write a separate post on this in the near future. A PHP version is doable though.
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Stoyan Cheresharov February 4, 2010 at 6:51 p.m.
WOW! That is great news! I am very happy that you are back on the project working on version 2.0!
But, why Python??? No!!! Please, don’t do that! That is a huge disappointment. I think you are making a mistake.
You just will benefit from the huge PHP Zend Framework community.
Can you answer the question “What Python can do, that PHP (Zend Framework ) cannot?”. Zend Framework is a rapid development environment. You will be building your application faster and easier. You will step on a robust, well tested platform and huge community.
Yahoo and many others have based their systems on C, PHP, Java Script combination.
It is all about a good software engineering, using the design patterns and principles. Any OO programming language can do the job. Zend has a huge growing community! It is one of the the best (if not the best) component library and powerful framework.
I like Lucid ideas very much! I took the risk to use it as a platform for the backend of our application. We have started to work on building a lot of applications for Lucid 1.0 already. We are using Zend Framework and Dojo. I already have one post on your site ( Post #172 by wingman007 1 month, 3 weeks ago ). I was almost sure you will decide to continue the project with version 2.0 and you are going to use Zend and Dojo. This is the PERFECT combination. I was a bit nervous about the fact that there were not too many developers involved in Lucid. Also I was not sure which direction this project is going. Did we make the right decision to bed on this project as a platform? It has a huge potential! It can be used as a universal platform for the backend of all CMS, CRM etc. systems. It offers the comfort of the desktop UI to manage your business on the web.
But the advantages of using Zend Framework and Dojo are obvious and I was thinking that this is the only right choice for you and you will make it.
The choice is yours!