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PC Soft, makers of a RAD tools called windev makes the best brochures

https://windev.com/storage/en_US/ebook/newfeatures/3/

RAD is a strange market though, tools are real, and customers make real business apps with it

The marketing is usually very .. unusual

I used some WinDev and WebDev at my last job. The tool isn't that bad, it's nice to have everything that just works from my IDE. On the other hand, I'm not a huge fan at all of using closed-source software. I also don't like using products for which the marketing is putting semi-nude women everywhere. Some people complained about that marketing aspect (https://www.jdp-pub.org/avis/windev-catalogue/) and they toned it down, so what's in that link is actually tame compared to what they did before.

I love this. This quote is the most valuable part of this post for me.

p.s. even if they have a beautiful brochure, they still have the name “polkadot”.

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

Common saying amongst reasonable people.

Somewhat of a bs saying really. I get the point, but the cover has the title, and we all do an initial assessment of the book by the title.