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Visual C#'s Windows Forms do not even approach Delphi 1 in terms of functionality and designer ease of use, let alone Delphi 7 (which was released around 2000).
by badsectoracula 5y ago
Visual C#'s Windows Forms do not even approach Delphi 1 in terms of functionality and designer ease of use, let alone Delphi 7 (which was released around 2000).
WinForms feel more like an abandoned beta version to remake Delphi in C#.
Note that i refer to Windows Forms specifically, not the entirety of the .NET Framework.
- lostmsu 5y agoVisual C# is the reason Delphi was abandoned, and the reason is precisely that most people found it to be better.
- badsectoracula 5y agoThe .NET Framework is better than what was available in Delphi at the time (at least out of the box) but the visual designer in Visual C# and WinForms in general was and still is (since it has been largely abandoned) way behind Delphi or Lazarus.
- pkphilip 5y agoDelphi was not abandoned because it was technically inferior. It was abandoned because Borland/Inprise started pushing Application Life Cycle products (don't get me started on that) and also pricing Delphi very high and the number of new companies/developers coming into the Delphi ecosystem dropped precipitously because of this. As Delphi lost steam, the development of Delphi too last steam and now we have the situation where Embarcadero marks HiDPI support as a feature in 2021. Embarcadero really, really needs to look at its pricing structure. Giving out a "community" version which does not even have proper database connectivity isn't going to change anything.