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D, Rust, C#, ML, Delphi, etc.
by apta 8y ago
D, Rust, C#, ML, Delphi, etc.
- jstimpfle 8y agoI haven't used all the other ones, but "Delphi" really made me crack up. I used it for 6 months before I quit my job. It's a mess, junk after junk added on a pile of junk, only surpassing the junk-adding badness of C++ by also having this broken standard library that's somehow required to write any type of software (because the simplest thing, C-like pointers, exist but are really not nice to work with). The task that lead to my decision to quit was to write a data serialization systems for datastructure that I didn't know in which version of junk they were expressed, by interfacing with the broken standard library. The serialization system was to replace another serialization system that somehow didn't quite work. No wonder, it was broken code, and I couldn't see a way to write non-broken code to solve an unsolveable problem. What's nice about Delphi is that the compiler is quick and it has a beginner-friendly IDE with a visual GUI creator (no selling point for me). That's about it, AFAICT.
- apta 8y agoI was referring to generics systems that don't suck.