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Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it. Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on L
by lpcvoid 7mo ago
Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it.
Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
- HauntingPin 7mo agoWhat's the relationship between Delphi and Lazarus?
- tonyedgecombe 7mo agoPascal
- utopcell 7mo agoIt's a Delphi-compatible IDE: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
- KronisLV 7mo agoDelphi is commercial: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions Lazarus is free with no artificial limitations, for FreePascal: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
- baal80spam 7mo agoIs it? What about Autohotkey, or Visual Studio?
- mauriciolange 7mo agoTwo very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.
- sumnole 7mo agoVisual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoAnd I think preferable to the XML split of code and GUI that is web like and how Microsoft’s other frameworks work.
- anakaine 7mo agoIt is absolutely preferable in that sense. The web-esq interface approach is far harder than it needs to be for small applications with basic interfaces.
- pjmlp 7mo agoI disagree, because C++ Builder also exists. :) Although .NET also follows along, pity that it took so many years for Microsoft to actually care about native compilation beyond NGEN.
- OCTAGRAM 7mo agoDid .NET manage to get rid of unsolicited tracing garbage collection?
- pjmlp 7mo agoDepends on how you write program, there are enough language features for low level coding and value types. Additionally lets not pretend Delphi doesn't have issues with memory and resources tracking. Even the whole reference counting support only applies to COM types, or when targeting Apple platforms. Which have had various changes to their behaviour across Delphi version. Other than that it is as it has always been since Turbo Pascal days.
- CodesInChaos 7mo agoI think C#'s WinForms is just as productive as Delphi's VCL. Unfortunately Microsoft abandoned it. Though I only used older versions of Delphi, so I don't know if recent improvements made it pull ahead. However both have limitations in more complex areas, such as rich text (html), data binding and targeting mobile and desktop with a mostly shared code-base.