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It is sad to think we gave all that up for HTML/CSS/JS. Now, with "modern" tools, it takes a whole village to build and submit a simple form.
by icedchai 5y ago
It is sad to think we gave all that up for HTML/CSS/JS. Now, with "modern" tools, it takes a whole village to build and submit a simple form.
- pjmlp 5y agoMore insane are the younger generations that grew up with the Web, have no idea how productive native tooling can be and then give us Electron based crap.
- littlecranky67 5y agoIts not HTML/CSS/JS that killed the RAD tools from the 90s/00s - it is security, multi-user and networking. I remember how quickly you can put together apps and forms using VB6 + visual designer. But security/permissions were mostly based on your Windows account user. I remember an ERP software that hardcoded the MySQL connection string with a god-mode user+password in a config file and relied on Windows permissions that only the ERP software itself (written in Delphi) could open it. User permissions were then encoded in that DB. Basically, one disassembly of the machine and extracting the config file from the harddrive would have allowed you full access to the db. Today, we use service layers (REST & Co.) to ensure permissions and access - something that would be equally complex when using VB/Lazarus today.
- icedchai 5y agoI'm not convinced RAD tools couldn't have been made to work with REST services or something else, like SOAP. SOAP probably would've been better for this. As much as I hated the complexity of SOAP, being able to generate clients from a WSDL was pretty cool.