How to choose the next programming platform ?

Thanks for the comment.
I.should have mentioned that I would.like to go towards web and mobile apps.
It.is true that it is somehow different from vfp.

Thx

That is almost entirely different than VFP.  Web programming requires knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and any server side programming languages needed to interface to databases.  The most common combinations are .NET and SQL Server, JAVA and Oracle, PHP and MySQL though probably every conceivable combination has been used by someone.

You are entirely right.
I have explored the 3 of them and honestly I lean towards alpha anywhere.
My only concern would be their reliability. Will they be around the next 5-10 years.?

Of course visual studio is there but as I said  I did not find it very RAD !

Thx

RAD is rapid application development.
It means that the user interface for.coding is simple/intuitive/easy...drag and drop...Etc...

I would offer two options which allow to reuse your VFP knowledge:
1) Lianja (http://www.lianja.com)  Offers much more than mobile apps.
2) Xbase++ (https://www.alaska-software.com/)  Not primarily derived for mobile apps but you may find such applications.

But nobody can tell whether they will be here in 10 years (whereas VFP will still be hare :-).
ActiveVFP and FoxInCloud also allows to write web based mobile apps.

OTOH, to learn something rather new is also an option. You may think about the new .NET Core Framework, Python etc. etc.

For "drag and drop", the code you need must be already written by someone.  I never run into that because almost all of my code is custom for applications.  In addition, most of it is processing data from forms and databases and does not have any onscreen 'controls'.

RAD is rapid application development.
It means that the user interface for.coding is simple/intuitive/easy...drag and drop...Etc...

That kind of complicates the question because it seems to indicate a significant misunderstanding of "RAD". You seem to be referring to tools that may help during "RAD", but the same tools can be used to good effect in any other application development methodology I can think of, including how they could have helped with solid "waterfall" SDMs from even half a century ago. The confusion comes up between the tools and the methodology.

So, are you actually looking for a future "programming platform"? Or do you really want a very full-featured IDE and/or code generator? Or...? What exactly do you mean by "programming platform"?

Tliotta

Thanks for the clarification.
I am looking for a programming language that would not die on me like VFP did.

At the same time I need something that is data centric since this is my area of development databases and SQL.

Thanks

What do you guys think about alpha anywhere platform ?
http://www.alphasoftware.com/

Thanks