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I have the opposite experience: I learned to program with Delphi, and all the React libraries feel like hard, slow ways to make stuff I'd make in five minutes i
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
I have the opposite experience: I learned to program with Delphi, and all the React libraries feel like hard, slow ways to make stuff I'd make in five minutes in Delphi.
- whstl 3y agoWere you wiring up the UI by yourself with imperative code, or were you using Delphi's form editor (or whatever it was called)? Because GP is criticizing Win32-style imperative UI code... and this is exactly what Delphi saves you from.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoDescribing GUIs in text should have been left in the 90s but I haven’t seen a better code paradigm for GUI behavior specification than VCL-style OOP.
- datavirtue 3y agoYeah,we had this all figured out decades ago and then the web through in a monkey wrench that we never recovered from. From a webdev point of view I love Vue...but it is a slow hard way to build UIs compared to Visual Basic, Delphi, or Swing.