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I'm gonna be honest, vanishingly few people use any of those technologies these days, and I'm speaking as someone who has used VB and some Delphi before. Electron and JS has magnitudes more libraries and support than all three of those technologies combined. To think that devs these days should use any of them is to be tone deaf to how the tech world works these days. Good luck convincing a dev, much less their boss,…
> Electron and JS has magnitudes more libraries and support than all three of those technologies combined. Libraries and support for what? Betcha 99 percent are for stuff that 99 percent of developers don't need. > Good luck convincing a dev, much less their boss, to use Delphi to develop their cutting edge desktop apps. Wasn't this a discussion about the single bloke working on his Minimum Maybe Viable Product? He's…
Re: The saddest “just ship it” story (2020)
#251As it happens, the deciding factor in my choice to use Electron in this particular product is that, thanks to being built on Chromium, Electron includes high-level WebRTC APIs with a complete media stack (including advanced stuff like audio streams from multiple sources). Good luck getting that working in Delphi or Free Pascal.