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When comparing TouchDevelop vs Xojo, the Slant community recommends Xojo for most people. In the question“What is the best programming language to learn first?” Xojo is ranked 53rd while TouchDevelop is ranked 54th. The most important reason people chose Xojo is:
Easy to make compiled native apps.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Advanced editor
- Browser based that is semi-structured as well as touchscreen friendly with a configurable presentation.
Pro Powerful APIs
APIs exist for persistent and shared data as well as for game engines and accelerometer, geolocation etc.
Pro Easy to use
Easy to make compiled native apps.
Cons
Con No collection literals
Collections can be initialized only verbosely.
Con No union types
There are no ADTs, not even enums.
Con No advanced expressions
There is no conditional expression or pattern matching.
Con Subscription-based/Not free
Using this product you're betting the company will still be around. If they get bought out by an enterprise that wants to use the tech internally, all they need to do is stop offering subscriptions and suddenly you're scrambling to rebuild your entire app on other technology.
Con No Android support
They plan to eventually support Android, but for now, they only support iOS.
