What RAD tools are out there? [closed]

Answer 1

Visual Studio - Hands down the best RAD studio there is. If you think that it is not only used for Microsoft's development tools, Delphi Prism uses it, and the SQL Management tools for SQL Server all use it you get an idea of the flexibility of it. It's also free (The RAD tool/IDE - not the development tool).

Answer 2

TurboGears is a framework to quickly build a web application using Python. Main features: You define the model, TG creates everything else which can then adjust to your needs. Changes in the model need a restart of the development server, everything else happens at the next reload in the web browser (TG will let you knew when you need to restart).

A big step forward, especially the 2.0 release (which should come out "real soon, now" - no offense, guys, I know you're hard working on this for several years ... but no TG 2.0 for me for several years, either :( ) Web only, though. So we'd have to implement all the drag'n'drop ourselves, find a way to paint a navigable graph. Frustratingly close.

Answer 3

It depends on who your market is. I can tell you one thing, your market will never consist of the whole of mankind. So that fact that maybe 25% of the people on the planet don't use Windows shouldn't really matter to you.

What matters to you is how many people in your market use whatever OS? If you're writing a business/financial application and you only develop for Windows, then you're probably only leaving out about .05% of your market (because when is the last time you heard of an Accountant that uses Macs or Linux?).

However, if you're writing a program for producing music (like FruityLoops) and you write Windows only then you're probably leaving out more like 50% of your market.

Answer 4

Grails is a framework to quickly build web applications. It's based on Groovy. You define the model, run two commands from the command line and you're set with a simple CRUD UI where you can edit your model in a web browser.

Web only, a lot of nice ideas but you can't have parent/child relations because of this bug which will hopefully be fixed in 1.0.5 release. For serious development, you will need one of the AJAX/Rich Client plugins because Grails doesn't come with very powerful widgets.

Answer 5

Delphi RAD Studio and Lazarus IDE for pascal/delphi language.

Answer 6

Netbeans's Matisse visual editor is great for Swing development .