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> for most the time of the Desktop computer has passed Might I respectfully disagree? Whenever I walk into a business, especially a larger one with open floor o
by imagine99 6y ago
> for most the time of the Desktop computer has passed
Might I respectfully disagree? Whenever I walk into a business, especially a larger one with open floor offices (and I admit, it has been a while, for obvious reasons), I see exactly one thing: Rows of desktop PCs (incl. laptop). Not tablets. Not smartphones. Desktop PCs (whether they run VDI or aren't much bigger than a CD case is immaterial). I'd strongly argue that most productive work on an electronic device is still performed at desktops (or laptops, which in this case are the same thing).
I get that when it comes to consumers, mobile is king and all that. That might be true. But for businesses, the choice of developing an internal tool web-based rather than cranking it out in Delphi and copying the exe on a network share, is simply down to the availability of developers. Not many decision-makers today still know about Delphi as a viable alternative (even for web and mobile development btw!) and when you can get much more developers at reasonable rates for React projects and don't have to fork over thousands to an unsympathetic company called Idera, well, it's almost a no-brainer.
But I'd still argue that you can get more done in an afternoon with Delphi than with Vue if you start with a blank slate - and at a fraction of keystrokes, too! ;-) ~> change my mind :-)
- tomjen3 6y agoIt has been too long since I have done anything in Delphi - both to answer your question and just in general, but I remember that it was pretty quick to build simple guis with (I never build complex ones with it). However I also don't remember there being any way to easily bind a component to a collection so that they would both update when one did, which makes the kind of auto updating stuff that people are used to because of Vue or React much harder to do. I take your point about desktop/laptops being in use in businesses. I sometimes think I am the only holdout.