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Two very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.
Visual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.
Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it. Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
Although .NET also follows along, pity that it took so many years for Microsoft to actually care about native compilation beyond NGEN.
From $960 + $399/year. I think it's quite an accomplishment to survive in the modern world of free software development tools.
Also pretty common in enterprise tooling, which is the market of tools like Delphi.
The alternative is everyone getting surprised that their favourite free software development tools (only free thanks to VC money), eventually goes away.
Unimportant tangent, but I think FireMonkey is a terrible name for a UI framework. I don't know why, but I hate it.
Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it. Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
However both have limitations in more complex areas, such as rich text (html), data binding and targeting mobile and desktop with a mostly shared code-base.
From $960 + $399/year. I think it's quite an accomplishment to survive in the modern world of free software development tools.
On Microsoft, Apple, and game consoles, it is still pretty common to pay for development tools. Also pretty common in enterprise tooling, which is the market of tools like Delphi. The alternative is everyone getting surprised that their favourite free software development tools (only free thanks to VC money), eventually goes away.
I see it less on Apple platforms except for published applications and niche tools.
Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it. Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
I think C#'s WinForms is just as productive as Delphi's VCL. Unfortunately Microsoft abandoned it. Though I only used older versions of Delphi, so I don't know if recent improvements made it pull ahead. However both have limitations in more complex areas, such as rich text (html), data binding and targeting mobile and desktop with a mostly shared code-base.
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On Microsoft, Apple, and game consoles, it is still pretty common to pay for development tools. Also pretty common in enterprise tooling, which is the market of tools like Delphi. The alternative is everyone getting surprised that their favourite free software development tools (only free thanks to VC money), eventually goes away.
Mostly Microsoft (inertia, you're already paying) and game consoles (expensive SDK/dev-kit licensing with NDA crap). I see it less on Apple platforms except for published applications and niche tools.
You already paid for XCode via their beloved hardware margins.
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I think C#'s WinForms is just as productive as Delphi's VCL. Unfortunately Microsoft abandoned it. Though I only used older versions of Delphi, so I don't know if recent improvements made it pull ahead. However both have limitations in more complex areas, such as rich text (html), data binding and targeting mobile and desktop with a mostly shared code-base.
WinForms isn't Win32, and it's still supported.
I tried Lazarus recently, but I found the IDE to be slow.