I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
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Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
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Delphi was what I had to use in my first apprenticeship/job, over 7 years ago now.
Came home after the first day and my dad told me that's what he made his first Windows programs with, too - but 25+ years ago!
After learning other languages, I still have to say it's great for quickly putting together GUIs and filling them with life. The community is rather thin these days though.
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Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#3I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#4I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
Whipping was never the problem with Delphi, long term maintenance was.
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#5I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
Whipping was never the problem with Delphi, long term maintenance was.
> long term maintenance was.
How so?
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#6I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
The best part is that Lazarus is write once, compile anywhere. It works on all major desktop OSes and even some less mainstream ones.
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#7I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
Whipping was never the problem with Delphi, long term maintenance was.
I find Pascal based languages to be much more readable than most JavaScript and C++ code bases.
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#8Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#9I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
A roadmap for Lazarus just released on 19 Aug 2023 (3 minutes video)
Re: I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> long term maintenance was. How so?
Because it's all proprietary, and continuously deprecated to blend better with the latest hype. I did 13 years with Delphi, full time.
It is still slower than Web fronted "today's framework to take over the world!".