I really want to like BMax but it still feels unfinished in various ways despite some great efforts by the community to fill in some of the blanks.
There are a few outstanding issues that I feel should have been addressed by now as lots of people here have been very patient.
I finally decided to adhere to BRL's will: BlitzMax is for games only (which still is not my domain), and for everything else I have now finally decided to switch to wxPython with Eclipse and PyDev as my development environment.