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What is it that delphi did that you want? The gui designer? The speed of compilation?
by Joeri 10y ago
What is it that delphi did that you want? The gui designer? The speed of compilation?
- scotty79 10y agoGui designer mostly. And the ui of the IDE itself. I want to feel that I'm in control of building an app. Android Studio (and Eclipse before that) made me feel like I'm taking unguided tour over bad decisions of android API creators and lack of giving a damn of IDE creators.
- Joeri 10y agoI don't know if you've looked at modern delphi, but it's not that different from IntelliJ. It seems amazing that delphi 1 was perfectly usable on a 640 x 480 screen, showing a complete IDE with a GUI designer, code editor, panel, menu and toolbar. Delphi 1: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/1x-1a684e073c904874f4b8a2965a3968c8-Delphi%201.0%20-%20Edit.png https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/1x-1a684e073c9048... Delphi 10: http://uimg.in/images/2017/01/05/e4vC6sN.png http://uimg.in/images/2017/01/05/e4vC6sN.png When I break apart the UI differences it's obvious delphi's UI had to grow to accommodate the growing complexity of the projects built with it, and that delphi 1 could get away with being simple because it wasn't expected to do all that much. Still, when I look at that delphi 1 screenshot all I can remember was how fun it was to program in it.
- scotty79 10y agoOne of the feature I really liked is specifying anchors and size constraints for all elements of the ui. This is so intuitive and behaves so beautifully that I'm at loss why it wasn't done like that in CSS and in all of the IDE gui designers that came after Delphi.