I agree, I think updating Blitz3D to DX9 would have been more welcomed and appreciated by the community and at the same time more beneficial to Blitz.com in the way of sales.
There wasn't much wrong with the blitz language or its stability, OOP is great agreed but what needed attention more was an up to date rendering engine with all the DX9 bells and whistles...so continuing Blitz's greatest strength which is a simple basic language coupled with a fast(ish) rendering engine giving you fast results with minimal coding.
Now what we have in Max is a language whose complexity is approaching C/C++ but with no 3D abilities unless you use a 3rd party rendering engine...some people may well choose to use those 3rd party engines and C++ since they know C++ already and not BMax.
[Edit] I hope in time (when the 3DMax renderer is complete) to eat my words but I think Blitz.com lost the plot.
There wasn't much wrong with the blitz language or its stability, OOP is great agreed but what needed attention more was an up to date rendering engine with all the DX9 bells and whistles...so continuing Blitz's greatest strength which is a simple basic language coupled with a fast(ish) rendering engine giving you fast results with minimal coding.
Now what we have in Max is a language whose complexity is approaching C/C++ but with no 3D abilities unless you use a 3rd party rendering engine...some people may well choose to use those 3rd party engines and C++ since they know C++ already and not BMax.
[Edit] I hope in time (when the 3DMax renderer is complete) to eat my words but I think Blitz.com lost the plot.