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Delphi is still my favourite ever development environment even though I haven't touched it for over a decade. IDE power, the VCL, amazing documentation, rapid
by noir_lord 10y ago
Delphi is still my favourite ever development environment even though I haven't touched it for over a decade.
IDE power, the VCL, amazing documentation, rapid builds, clean OO language, it had it all.
- mickronome 10y agoFor building GUI small/medium applications on windows I don't think there have never existed anything more convenient. Not to mention that usually your only deliverable was a single executable file.
- noir_lord 10y agoAgreed and it was fast at runtime as well, not far off the same speed as C++ for a lot of things, I remember using it for some pretty performance intensive stuff and you could easily drop to assembly if needed. It was a fantastic development environment even by modern standards but for its time it was well ahead of the curve. I still try out Lazarus once in a while just for nostalgia :)
- pjmlp 10y agoIt IS fast. We are doing a project with a company that uses it for all their Windows applications. Delphi conferences are still a thing in Germany.
- noir_lord 10y agoIt was pretty big over here as well, the last version I used in anger was 7 but I still see the odd job posted for Delphi devs.