Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
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Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
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Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#2This is one heck of a rant. I couldn’t make it through to the end to see if he ever got to the point.
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#3(2016)
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#4This was published in 2016.
And the title included "C# coders". I am not a C# coder, but all C# GUI coders I know had praised Delphi for its design and convenience for GUI...
edit:grammar
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#5I am a C# coder and I don't hate or talk about Delphi at all, I didn't even know people still used it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#6Some 3 years after this satire post was published...
Satire and (2016)
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#7This is one heck of a rant. I couldn’t make it through to the end to see if he ever got to the point.
Delphi doesn't get the respect it deserves and C# people are mean.
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#8It’s a really good crash course on the shared origins of Delphi and C# plus a brief reminder of all the modern features offered by Delphi that have flown under the radar, but the anger and emotion is rather immature and really detracts from the argument. Those words could have been better spent selling its strengths further.
That aside, things have changed rapidly in the last five years in the C#/.NET world first with .NET Native then with .NET Core and CoreRT. Exciting times, really.
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#9It's hard being an old programmer as some technologies that you used in the past, that were more productive than certain technologies today, are no longer popular. Creating client side apps in the 90s was arguably easier than creating web apps today with the soup of html/css/js frameworks that are changing every month.
edit/mass reply: I've been coding web apps with the rest of you guys for 20 years. The web isn't the problem, the tooling just isn't there yet. The solution space is large and we're still in the 'throw things at the wall' stage. It will eventually be figured out and web dev will be nice and stable just like the backend and database layers.
Re: Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016)
#10It's hard being an old programmer as some technologies that you used in the past, that were more productive than certain technologies today, are no longer popular. Creating client side apps in the 90s was arguably easier than creating web apps today with the soup of html/css/js frameworks that are changing every month. edit/mass reply: I've been coding web apps with the rest of you guys for 20 years. The web isn't th…
Oh really? Please tell me about the ultra-productive "Built For Internet Explorer" days of web dev.