New version of PureBasic...

Some users might already using the 4.0 beta, the update is actually amazing.

And it now supports UTF-8, and can create an unicode compilant executable.

Don't know when BlitzMax compiler can deal with UTF strings correctly(bcc can't even compile a file with Asia language strings yet)

I thinks there should be no more major changes in B3D/B+ so I don't expect i18n will come with them. but BMax supports UTF-16, should be not that to hard to implement it...

/opinion on
I'm waiting on the Mac version of PB to get a bit more stable myself, but the real question for me regarding PB/BMax is Intel-Mac support. Well that and a 3D engine of course (PB's Ogre-3D engine hasn't been ported to Mac yet).

If both turn out ok i'll probably go PB, as I find BMax can be a bit long winded, which isn't in the least helped by the docs. PB's docs are much better even though they're a bit terse in places, and I do find the odd Frenchism funny...

Welcome to the wonderful world of OOP! :P

Agreed, although BMax is still young, we won't know what will change in later versions.

As PB is stable enough I tend to finish some projects that are holded off, and wait for Max3D and real i18n support.

PB is great for applications, it's really good to work with and results are generally quite quick. I also like it for building dll's although I'm getting quite used to C++ now.