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.. _whysimba:
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Why Simba?
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So why would you use Simba?
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For several reasons. Number one is probably the active community combined with
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the open mindedness of the Simba developers.
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Simba is:
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Free
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Simba is, and always will be free.
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It is free as in Free Beer ``and`` as in Freedom.
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Simba is 100% free to use. In fact, we welcome you to share it with the
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rest of the world.
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The source code to the program is also freely available, under the GPL
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license.
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.. note::
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The source code allows everyone to see how the program actually
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works. Most developers choose not to share their source code and therefore
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decide to hold knowledge back. The Simba developers highly disagree with
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this mentality and will fight for a world with free knowledge for
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everyone. "Closed Source" as not sharing source code is called, is holding
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back innovation and research in the world.
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Extensible
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Simba supports both plugins in machine code as well as extensions written
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in the Simba programming language. (Pascal)
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This way one can easily extend Simba. See :ref:`writing-simba-extensions`
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Reliable
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Simba is actively maintained by a team of knowledgable programmers.
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We as a team do our best to make Simba into a quality product.
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However this does not guarantee a bug free program.
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(Bug free programs don't exist)
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Should you encouter a bug, please consider sending a bug report so we can
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resolve the issue: :ref:`bugreport`.
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Cross Platform
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Simba has been written with freedom in mind and believes Simba
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should not be limited to one platform, as that limits its users
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to one platform as well.
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Currently the supported platforms are Windows and Linux.
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Even though we try hard to make Simba bug-free on all platforms,
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some issues remain. The biggest issue is the component that
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executes your program. It is an external component and does not
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play too well on Linux. Hopefully we will be able to fix this soon.
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Fast
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The Simba developers have designed and written Simba with speed in mind.
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However, focussing too much on speed is in reality not a good case.
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It often leads to instability and more bugs in the program.
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For Simba, we have sacrificed some speed to make a more featureful
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and stable program.
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Nevertheless, Simba is quite fast.
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