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I think the parent commenter’s issue with Delphi wasn’t technological but rather the “commercial situation” - that Delphi is proprietary and a bit expensive, wh
by nicklecompte 6y ago
I think the parent commenter’s issue with Delphi wasn’t technological but rather the “commercial situation” - that Delphi is proprietary and a bit expensive, which is both an annoyance and potentially a serious liability. Especially given that Delphi, while far from dead, is in a tenuous market position.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoLazarus is pretty good, although somewhat unstable
- mikewarot 6y ago>Lazarus is pretty good, although somewhat unstable The most serious problem I have with it (I can't afford Delphi, or I would buy my way out) is the lack of actual documentation. Sure, there is a wiki, but it is just the output of a program stripping docstrings, nothing actually useful when you just need to use a part from a given library. There are no working code examples, or tips about corner cases, etc. Turbo Pascal had very good documentation, and it got better over time.
- pjmlp 6y agoI still keep my Turbo Pascal manuals, and some generous souls have uploaded most of them to bitsavers.
- wdb 6y agoThe community version of are Remobjects Elements is a joy to use. I am using it in a professional/commercial manner to write closed source libraries for iOS, Android and Wasm all written in Swift.