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What to Learn - RealBasic or Cocoa?

I just finished my first AS Studio project and am very excited to develop my next project. I am a long time web programmer with PHP, Lasso, AS and Javascript well under my belt. I have really enjoyed the power of developing a true desktop client app as opposed to a web browser app.

I am writing for the input of others who might have some input on the issue of using RealBasic versus learning Cocoa. After my first AS Studio App I was convinced that XCode is the answer to many projects I have in the pipe. I also realized that I was stretching Applescript too far as I am building a full product, customer, order management system and thus need to go the next step and learn Cocoa. I bought the Cocoa book by Aaron Hillegass "Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X" and feel very confident that I can be productive in Cocoa in a fairly short time.

A few years ago I looked into RealBasic and even began to fiddle with it. I have recently looked again and am wondering if anyone has any input into the advantages/disadvantages of using RB for building business apps versus Cocoa. It seems with the latest release of XCode – bindings in particular – that developing Cocoa apps has become shall we say "quicker and less code intensive" and thus maybe RB's "easy" learning curve may not be such a huge advantage over Cocoa.

The points that pull me towards RB is the multi platform authoring and speed of development. We are mac only, but we may find it useful to develop apps for our vendors/partners and thus RB seems to be the best choice. Is porting a Cocoa app to Windoze a huge undertaking that requires expertise in yet another low level language like C++, I expect it is.

I should mention that I did look into Revolution but was turned off as soon as i found out that table views are horrible, no column headings, little cell formatting and so forth.

Primarily we will be connecting to a local MySQL database and manipulating data. Updating product info, orders, vendor info, viewing images that appear on our web site and then synching some of that info to our web database. We're not trying to build another quickbooks but we will be doing accounting as well.

Does anyone have any input? Is development in RB still a lot faster than in Xcode using Cocoa? Can anyone tell me of advantages to developing in one over the other? I feel like my mind is 80% made up that I will use RB but wanted to throw this out there in case someone has already gone down this path and has some wisdom.

Thanks for your input.

Chris _______________________________________________
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