Existing users, 
I am only demoing RB right now and have read the customer reviews with interest. They seem to split into love it or hate it, with little in between. As a new programmer I think RB seems accessible and it should meet my initial needs.
I would be grateful if anyone who has complained about RB being buggy could be a bit more specific - what sort of problems are you talking about, is it true that bugs survive from one version to the next, etc?
Thanks in anticipation of your constructive comments. And one last thing - I have contacted customer support with a couple of questions. I was very impressed to immediately receive useful answers on both occasions. Good service so far!
REALbasic
Cross-platform, object-oriented programming environment.
Version: 2009.4.0.0
Initial Impression - Sascha Leib
I'm a RB user since the time when it was still called "CrossBasic", and I followed the development quite closely. Yes, there are bugs in RB (as with any other complex software), and yes, there are bugs which are there since several versions. So much for that.On the other hand, I know no other development tool (on the Mac or otherwise), which allows you to create professional applications in such a short time - learning-wise and development-wise.
A lot of people badmouthing RB compare it to tools like CodeWarrior or ProjectBuilder. True, you can do things with these that you can't do with RB, but you can expect tripple the development time - and ten times the learning period to use this tool properly.
Keeping this in mind, you can easily work around the bugs in RB, and enjoy a beautifully designed class library and a powerful compiler. Not for every job, but for a lot of them.
Sascha Leib
(who still prefers RB 2.1.2, and has made quite a few professional jobs with it!)
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Saturday, June 28 2003 @ 01:29 PM PDT