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What exactly made it superior? I remember working with Delphi in high school and, in hindsight, it seemed much less powerful than web technologies.
by codethief 4y ago
What exactly made it superior? I remember working with Delphi in high school and, in hindsight, it seemed much less powerful than web technologies.
- bitL 4y agoSimplicity, great documentation, IDE that guided you, WYSIWIG, easily multi-threaded when needed. Delphi/C++ Builder is a business failure, not a technological one. No ugly hacks for things like CORS/XSS needed. Electron is basically repackaging a distributed app into a desktop one, so it's clear it's going to be way more complex than a primarily desktop-based dev system.
- rhaway84773 4y agoThere’s no reason an Electron (or any other web based) app needs to be distributed. Consider VSCode. There’s nothing distributed about it.
- ColonelPhantom 4y agoVSCode is distributed! It supports connecting to a remote VSCode "server", so that you can edit files over SSH for example. Of course, 99% of the time the server and client are ran together, so you don't notice it is distributed. But that doesn't mean it isn't.