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No, not a good Idea. We did tons of efforts to achieve good multiplatform open source dev tools with exclusively FLOSS dependencies. Take dev-cpp as a remainder
by marcodiego 1y ago
No, not a good Idea. We did tons of efforts to achieve good multiplatform open source dev tools with exclusively FLOSS dependencies. Take dev-cpp as a remainder of what happens when people follow such path.
And this is a comment I often link whenever I ser any news related to Delphi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509
- binary132 1y agoI still think of Dev-C++ with great fondness from time to time.
- fithisux 1y agoIt was good when C++ was C with Objects. Nowadays, C++ is just a beast.
- binary132 1y agoI mean, nobody’s stopping you from just writing C with Objects.
- fithisux 1y agoIt's not C++ then and possibly the autoccompletion features or more modern C+Objects features will not work on DevC++
- binary132 11mo agothat's simply not true, no C++ standard version has removed old-school style C++ features, nothing is stopping you from using plain Jane C++ with new, delete, plain-old-data structs, etc.
- nurettin 1y agoThink of it like this: Delphi's existence is a reminder that people will regress to the comfort of windows if they find a tool "that just works", is fast, efficient and native. It is a reminder that these properties are to be taken seriously.
- kybernetyk 1y agoI almost forgot how bad the dev-tools ecosystem was back in the day. I remember back in 1998, when I was 15, I took on a vacation job in a car shop (wet sanding car parts) just to afford Visual C++ 6.0. I also had to order the compiler through a local dealer and delivery took 6 weeks. But I still have the box and CD-ROM :)
- marcodiego 1y agoThe Linux world was good. We didn't had a RAD, but we had good compilers, debuggers, source navigation tools and very good programming text editors. It was around that time that I knew Linux and started migrating.
- pjmlp 1y agoI rather use something like this than Electron crap.
- sharts 1y agoSadly you are in the minority. Kids these days haven’t experienced anything but bloated software their whole lives. Latency has no meaning for them
- pjmlp 1y agoI may be, however most of those kids are actually using tablets, which adds another vector to the whole perception problematic. Still, I try to do my little part, with exception of VSCode, given some SDK requirements that I don't control, anything Electron based only has a place on a browser tab on my personal computers.