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Depends on what "look great" means. And I've seen Delphi apps; I recently worked on one. In my experience they don't look great. Maybe you've done a lot of wor

Depends on what "look great" means. And I've seen Delphi apps; I recently worked on one. In my experience they don't look great. Maybe you've done a lot of work to theme the controls; if so, wonderful. But what I'm familiar with just brought up Windows dialogs, and ... well, that's functional but I wouldn't say it looks great. But here are a few examples of ways you could create 150 fields in a day on a web app and have them look great: Arrays of control types: https://formik.org/docs/examples/field-arrays https://formik.org/docs/examples/field-arrays for simplicity of creating the controls plus something like https://chakra-ui.com/docs/components/input https://chakra-ui.com/docs/components/input to make them pretty. Spreadsheet look (with spreadsheet functionality!) in one control: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-spreadsheet https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-spreadsheet Want to build the form by hand and customize it? https://www.form.io/ https://www.form.io/ Form should follow a database schema and automatically display database records? https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ (I used this approach to bring up an admin panel for more than 150 fields, though spread over a couple dozen pages, because of course that looks better than trying to bring up 150 fields on one page.) The standard way to create a large form (or any data table on a page) today is to iterate over the fields you want and add them to a page. There are frameworks like Chakra that can help you make everything look attractive--and you can theme the result in whatever color scheme or styles you like. I really don't want to have to touch Delphi ever again; it felt like I'd fallen back into the 1990s in code development terms, and I missed all of the modern features I'd grown accustomed to. If it's what you like, and it pays the bills, then enjoy. But know that people who have used more recent tools like myself consider it to be anachronistic.

mycall 4y ago
Beyond Compare is a lovely Delphi application.
- SomeCallMeTim 4y ago
  Good to know. I use that; didn't know it was Delphi. It's...not terrible looking. It's all Windows controls, as I mentioned above, which makes it look, well, simple. And it's a utility that really doesn't need to look fancy, so it's fine for what it is. It doesn't seem to have a dark theme, which is a bummer, but otherwise it does the job. But that doesn't mean I want to work on it.
  - CRConrad 4y ago
    > It's all Windows controls, as I mentioned above, which makes it look, well, simple. Simple is beautiful. > And it's a utility that really doesn't need to look fancy, so it's fine for what it is. "Fancy" sucks. > It doesn't seem to have a dark theme, which is a bummer, but otherwise it does the job. "Dark theme" is moronic: Having your app use only standard Windows controls meant it automatically used whatever "theme" the user had set Windows-wide, so it always adapted to their preferences. No per-application "dark theme" or "purple theme" needed. Until Microsoft themselves sabotaged all that, starting late in the lifespan of Windows 7. Assholes.

mycall 4y ago

Beyond Compare is a lovely Delphi application.

SomeCallMeTim 4y ago
Good to know. I use that; didn't know it was Delphi. It's...not terrible looking. It's all Windows controls, as I mentioned above, which makes it look, well, simple. And it's a utility that really doesn't need to look fancy, so it's fine for what it is. It doesn't seem to have a dark theme, which is a bummer, but otherwise it does the job. But that doesn't mean I want to work on it.
- CRConrad 4y ago
  > It's all Windows controls, as I mentioned above, which makes it look, well, simple. Simple is beautiful. > And it's a utility that really doesn't need to look fancy, so it's fine for what it is. "Fancy" sucks. > It doesn't seem to have a dark theme, which is a bummer, but otherwise it does the job. "Dark theme" is moronic: Having your app use only standard Windows controls meant it automatically used whatever "theme" the user had set Windows-wide, so it always adapted to their preferences. No per-application "dark theme" or "purple theme" needed. Until Microsoft themselves sabotaged all that, starting late in the lifespan of Windows 7. Assholes.