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Both Embarcadero.com and Lazarus project homepage refers to that they have the capability of RAD. Lazarus - "RAD - Rapid Application Development." Embarcadero

Both Embarcadero.com and Lazarus project homepage refers to that they have the capability of RAD. Lazarus - "RAD - Rapid Application Development." Embarcadero - "RAD Server - Reduces the complexities of rapidly building and deploying a multi-tier turn-key enterprise REST API application server with Swagger support." What does RAD refer to? What is it actually?

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andsoitis 4y ago
What is RAD? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
badsectoracula 4y ago
> What does RAD refer to? Rapid Application Development :-P. Wikipedia has an article[0], but in general it can probably be thought as a precursor to agile (the article says that agile is a RAD method) in that instead of doing some lengthy pre/planing process you use an iterative approach that adapts to what the users want. In this particular case Lazarus is a RAD IDE in the sense that it allows quick development and iteration of functional GUIs - Delphi was also like that but at some point Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/Embarcadero/Whoever made it more of a name to use for their products ("RAD Studio") than something that describes them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development