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Completely agree. I wrote code in Delphi 20 years ago, and I was far more productive than I am today. The secret was to have self-contained components that fit
by ccleve 10y ago
Completely agree. I wrote code in Delphi 20 years ago, and I was far more productive than I am today.
The secret was to have self-contained components that fit within a rigid layout system. It wasn't easy to make things pretty, but it worked. To write code, you clicked on the component, clicked on an event, and wrote your logic in a little snippet editor. It was all event-driven.
Would love to have something like that for web design today. An opinionated system that forced you to use a limited subset of html and css might be able to pull it off.
(Delphi was a VB-like environment for Borland Pascal. It's still around: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi)
- therealmarv 10y agoDelphi is also the first thing which comes into my mind when I think of that. I was also much more productive in that old days with GUI stuff. I also don't understand why there is no good RAD existing nowadays... I think the biggest reason is because there are no real solid non changing standards (like the Windows API and VCL in Delphi) and all this stuff HTML5+CSS3+ES6 have much more possibilities how stuff is created and interlinked to eachother in comparison to a Windows window system.