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Wait, is this a recent article? If so, this is a really great attempt at humor: "My colleague told me to abandon Delphi, it’s obsolete, Silverlight is the futu
by oceanswave 9y ago
Wait, is this a recent article? If so, this is a really great attempt at humor:
"My colleague told me to abandon Delphi, it’s obsolete, Silverlight is the future.”
- striking 9y agoYeah, it was written a few days ago
- systems 9y agoNot at all, the article is recent, but this interaction with his colleagues is obviously old, and proves his point delphi outlasted silverlight honestly myself i was surprised by how easily and relatively fast microsoft abandoned silverlight, i really liked their rad tool, lightswitch , but it seems it was strongly coupled to silverlight, and got abandoned soon after it was announced that silverlight will not be further developed makes you think, you cant bet on a product, because it is supported by a large company
- pjmlp 9y agoSilverlight, like XNA, were victims of the usual WinDev vs DevTools issues. Although that is a proper conclusion, the majority of successful programming languages always had a corporate sponsor driving their adoption and development, even the ANSI/ISO ones.
- vintagedave 9y agoThat's the point - something like Delphi stays, is reliable, is not deprecated, while relying on Microsoft tools ends up with tool and library turnover at a high rate. (Consider the past ten years of MS libraries...)