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I'd write it in Lazarus/Free Pascal, compile it to WASM[1], and do whatever hacks I had to do in order to push it through the internet into a web browser. Ther

I'd write it in Lazarus/Free Pascal, compile it to WASM[1], and do whatever hacks I had to do in order to push it through the internet into a web browser. There's nothing even close to the productivity we had back in the days of VB6/Delphi to be had on the web, ever. The closest we're going to get is a pale imitation. [1] https://wiki.freepascal.org/WebAssembly https://wiki.freepascal.org/WebAssembly

ddmf 3y ago
I remember writing a cgi app in delphi back in the late 90s to emulate our in house excel sheet that priced up a custom computer. Do you have any suggested reading for what you're suggesting because I'm just about to start a project and as we do a lot of our LOB apps in Delphi this seems useful?
- mikewarot 3y ago
  No, I don't have any suggested reading... just a plan of action should it be required. I'm assuming that enough work has been done that it should be possible to build a CRUD application in Pascal, and have it eventually produce working WASM executable code. I have some existing code in pascal[1]... and it would be helpful for it to run in the browser.... lemme see how bad it is making this happen. It'll take a few days, I think. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
  - mikewarot 3y ago
    Turns out I was able to get something to work in about 2 hours... just after the HN edit window closed. Here's a really small Hello World in Pascal --> WASM --> Web Page you can see the output from, all in a GitHub repo.[1] [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/fpc_wasm https://github.com/mikewarot/fpc_wasm
meiraleal 3y ago
If that was really true, it would be a competitive advantage of many companies. Unless they are hiding it. Desktop apps are easier to develop as there are way less moving parts. There isn't nothing magical about VB6/Delphi, just a lot of work put there. Many JS developers are multiple times more productive than what was possible to accomplish with VB6/Delphi.

ddmf 3y ago

I remember writing a cgi app in delphi back in the late 90s to emulate our in house excel sheet that priced up a custom computer. Do you have any suggested reading for what you're suggesting because I'm just about to start a project and as we do a lot of our LOB apps in Delphi this seems useful?

mikewarot 3y ago
No, I don't have any suggested reading... just a plan of action should it be required. I'm assuming that enough work has been done that it should be possible to build a CRUD application in Pascal, and have it eventually produce working WASM executable code. I have some existing code in pascal[1]... and it would be helpful for it to run in the browser.... lemme see how bad it is making this happen. It'll take a few days, I think. [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
- mikewarot 3y ago
  Turns out I was able to get something to work in about 2 hours... just after the HN edit window closed. Here's a really small Hello World in Pascal --> WASM --> Web Page you can see the output from, all in a GitHub repo.[1] [1] https://github.com/mikewarot/fpc_wasm https://github.com/mikewarot/fpc_wasm

meiraleal 3y ago

If that was really true, it would be a competitive advantage of many companies. Unless they are hiding it. Desktop apps are easier to develop as there are way less moving parts. There isn't nothing magical about VB6/Delphi, just a lot of work put there. Many JS developers are multiple times more productive than what was possible to accomplish with VB6/Delphi.