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Just to share that it's available and doable--I have been getting back into the old Delphi-style work recently using Lazarus IDE / FreePascal Compiler / Object

Just to share that it's available and doable--I have been getting back into the old Delphi-style work recently using Lazarus IDE / FreePascal Compiler / Object Pascal language. The same approach still works well. I've heard that many Delphi apps will require very little tweaking to get working. Personally all my projects are selfish productivity- and solo gaming-related apps that will never see public release, but I like it that way for now. And it's fun. Anyway, by the end of the day you could be one of those programmers with a 25 year gap in their release notes, to the amazement of onlookers! BTW, maybe relevant in the current pandemic: https://twitter.com/SciPasTips https://twitter.com/SciPasTips

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
That's interesting. I'm curious to hear what's different, how you deal with the challenge of meeting modern expectations and so on.
- themodelplumber 7y ago
  The only expectations are my own... Not too different from any other project in that way. But I will say that I think it's a good idea to keep a loose & playful grip on any given programming language... They're all good or even great in this way or that, so I don't mind having a lot of favorites.
quelltext 7y ago
I wonder though, what made Delphi so simple in terms of UI development? Is there anything that could not in theory also be applied to other languages, e.g. Java?
- lima 7y ago
  A very good IDE with first-party GUI designer integration, and a big ecosystem of third party components for just about anything. The language itself is not impressive compared to today's options.
- spockz 7y ago
  One of the features of the gui components that we have used extensively was the double data bind. It is extremely powerful to be able to connect various input fields to a data model and have the results updated automatically upon changes.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago

That's interesting. I'm curious to hear what's different, how you deal with the challenge of meeting modern expectations and so on.

themodelplumber 7y ago
The only expectations are my own... Not too different from any other project in that way. But I will say that I think it's a good idea to keep a loose & playful grip on any given programming language... They're all good or even great in this way or that, so I don't mind having a lot of favorites.

quelltext 7y ago

I wonder though, what made Delphi so simple in terms of UI development? Is there anything that could not in theory also be applied to other languages, e.g. Java?

lima 7y ago
A very good IDE with first-party GUI designer integration, and a big ecosystem of third party components for just about anything. The language itself is not impressive compared to today's options.
spockz 7y ago
One of the features of the gui components that we have used extensively was the double data bind. It is extremely powerful to be able to connect various input fields to a data model and have the results updated automatically upon changes.