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Lazarus and FreePascal would beg to differ: https://www.lazarus-ide.org Everything you ever loved about Delphi 7, but with a ton of modernization. LGPL, too!
Serious question: Can you make "Netflix money", er, "FAANG money", as a Lazarus developer?
I love these projects that show what can be done with 1mhz cpu and mere kilobytes of ram, really makes you wonder what we’re doing with the other 99% of hardware performance we’ve achieved since then
I love these projects that show what can be done with 1mhz cpu and mere kilobytes of ram, really makes you wonder what we’re doing with the other 99% of hardware performance we’ve achieved since then
The Luddite sentiment common among programmers today really surprises me. The software we’re building today is vastly more powerful and capable than anything from the C64 era.
And for what? to edit a text box?
There are new capabilities around encryption and encoding, things like h265 and etc, which of course help with medical diagnostics and such.
I would take c64 software any time, look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROr8JhilPhI its from 1983.
Imagine what kind of software would the people from 1980s write if they just had a raspberry pi 4 to work with..
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Lazarus and FreePascal would beg to differ: https://www.lazarus-ide.org Everything you ever loved about Delphi 7, but with a ton of modernization. LGPL, too!
Serious question: Can you make "Netflix money", er, "FAANG money", as a Lazarus developer?
I guess if you want to make gobs of cash, fine. You could also just go into finance and make more than FAANG money if you're talented enough.
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Programmer productivity. As long as this is the bottleneck in determining market success of a product, this tradeoff will continue.
Programmer productivity has gotten worse. None of the development tools in widespread use today is as productive as Visual Basic or Delphi were back in 1996.
It's because today isn't about programmer productivity.
It's about enabling teams to work together without tripping over their own feet and killing the business.
So much complexity to solve essentially what is a human problem.
It takes 5 people to do the job of 1 back then, and that's what the industry wants. No one would trust an individual.
Too much money flowed into this industry, leading to waste, as it became clearly a pillar of the future.
Past related threads: Shared Libraries for C64 OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590376 - March 2021 (1 comment) Rethinking the Commodore 64 Memory Map (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20317767 - June 2019 (17 comments) C64 OS: A Commodore 64 OS with Modern Concepts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997911 - Sept 2018 (42 comments)
I love these projects that show what can be done with 1mhz cpu and mere kilobytes of ram, really makes you wonder what we’re doing with the other 99% of hardware performance we’ve achieved since then
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lazarus and FreePascal would beg to differ: https://www.lazarus-ide.org Everything you ever loved about Delphi 7, but with a ton of modernization. LGPL, too!
Serious question: Can you make "Netflix money", er, "FAANG money", as a Lazarus developer?
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Serious question: Can you make "Netflix money", er, "FAANG money", as a Lazarus developer?
No, but all those people making "Netflix money" aren't really changing technology, are they? I'd argue FAANG is stagnating it, and telling themselves differently. I guess if you want to make gobs of cash, fine. You could also just go into finance and make more than FAANG money if you're talented enough.
Even if there is 2 step forwards, one step back, the overall benefit of options available due to the vast number of people contributing their creativity is only possible due to these companies.