Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Best CAT Tool for Mac?
Poster: Epameinondas Soufleros
Post title: memoQ on Mac
The only big CAT tool that can come to Mac in the foreseeable future is memoQ. memoQ has been a .NET application since version 1, in contrast to DéjàVu and Trados, both of which have lots of legacy code, which has never been refactored and modernized, just sitting there as a so-called “big ball of mud”.
If Kilgray have the resources, they can fork their current project and build a version (or, perhaps, an edition, i.e. a variant) of memoQ based on .NET Core, which is the current, modern, cross-platform framework by Microsoft. The biggest hurdle, as I see it, is to find replacements for the Windows Forms components that they have been relying on, like the component that makes the translation grid, which is a crucial part of the application.
Let's see how this goes.
[Edited at 2018-03-22 11:44 GMT]
Topic: Best CAT Tool for Mac?
Poster: Epameinondas Soufleros
Post title: memoQ on Mac
The only big CAT tool that can come to Mac in the foreseeable future is memoQ. memoQ has been a .NET application since version 1, in contrast to DéjàVu and Trados, both of which have lots of legacy code, which has never been refactored and modernized, just sitting there as a so-called “big ball of mud”.
If Kilgray have the resources, they can fork their current project and build a version (or, perhaps, an edition, i.e. a variant) of memoQ based on .NET Core, which is the current, modern, cross-platform framework by Microsoft. The biggest hurdle, as I see it, is to find replacements for the Windows Forms components that they have been relying on, like the component that makes the translation grid, which is a crucial part of the application.
Let's see how this goes.
[Edited at 2018-03-22 11:44 GMT]