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I love Delphi which still allows a developer to quickly put together a UI with drag and drop and point and click. Run it on Mac,Linux,Windows. They have had a
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
I love Delphi which still allows a developer to quickly put together
a UI with drag and drop and point and click.
Run it on Mac,Linux,Windows.
They have had all this working for over a decade.
If only the madness of post Borland had not been so complete.
- zeroc8 3y agoTo me, Delphi has always been the best tool for desktop development. And I've tried them all. Win32, MFC, Winforms, WPF, Qt, Gtk, WxWidgets, Fltk, Swing, JavaFX, Flutter, React, Angular, Svelte, Solid... But desktop development is dead, unfortunately. And Delphi is too expensive. They should take a look at Jetbrains on how to successfully sell licenses to individuals...
- ThinkBeat 3y agoWell Borland knew who to sell licenses to individuals. Turbo Pascal and the rest of that line sold extremely well. That was true for Delphi as well in the beginning. Unfortunately, some giant idiotic enterprisy choices were made at a corporate level, setting off a sequence of disasters. A true tragedy in slow motion of decades.
- pjmlp 3y agoAlongside C++ Builder, except for Borland, no one else has managed to create such a great product for doing GUI development in C++, bringing it closer to the Delphi/VB experience. C++/CLI and C++/CX never had that kind of support on Microsoft, even though they get associated with having pushed C++ on the industry (ironically given that it is a Bell Labs UNIX born language, and they were the last PC compiler vendor to support it). Even MFC never was as good as OWL/VCL.