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by zeroc8 1y ago
One of the biggest mistake we've made as an industry. The good thing is that the worst days are over. The whole design pattern craze was pretty annoying, to say the least.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Java's biggest problem is the fact that mutability is so baked into the language. I'm working on a project now where I always need to dig deep to find out if something has been mutated or not. Yes, there are records and we are now
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by zeroc8 1y ago
I took that one, tour guides were great. Most buildings look the same though ;)
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by zeroc8 1y ago
That's why I keep using Golang instead of C#, even though C# is better in a lot of ways. But with Go, I normally can understand any sourcecode I'm control clicking into. I've never gotten to this point with any other language
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by zeroc8 1y ago
For me as a german speaker it is kind of humoruous that they called it that way. I guess similar to Yahoo for english speakers. Anyway, I'm still using that site for my electronic purchases. It reminds me of a past, more likable intern
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Just checking the webiste, it feels great too. I don't know what it is, but I just like their straight forward style.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Would love to get me some Gripen and Sdk to play around with it....
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by zeroc8 1y ago
And Sencha. They are just buying stuff so that they can milk their remaining customers. But outside of Delphi/C++ Builder and maybe Interbase back in the day, I haven't seen them doing anything worthwile.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
WinForms used to have a designer similar to Delphi. I've used them both, Delphi's was better.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Since Firemonkey draws on Skia anyway, they could also provide something similar to Flutter/WASM. I love the Flutter/WASM idea, but cannot get warm with the widget in widget approach flutter uses. Having a designtool like Delphi&#
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by zeroc8 1y ago
I remember thinking back then that Jetbrains had their pricing right. Not free but low enough so that invidual developers and companies wouldn't think twice about bying a license. Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero jus
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by zeroc8 1y ago
The missing constness is the biggest flaw of them all, in my opinion, especially when reading other people's code. Always having to dig deep to make sure an object isn't altered somewhere down the line gets old really quick.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Yes, of course, it's not completely dead yet. But very few new native Windows business applications are being written. That's why there are no jobs, no investment, no fresh blood. The old guard is hanging on until they can retire.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Nobody writes Win32 desktop apps anymore. That is Delphi's main problem.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
They are used for different things. There are a zillion successful projects in Go. Don't see how Rust won anything.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
It must be the diet and proably the general more stressy life style. Anytime I'm coming back from a business trip to the states, I feel bloated like a hot air baloon. Not sure what they put in their food. Generally, you get this fast
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by zeroc8 1y ago
The Mac Mini has been exciting for me. A great low cost low energy consumption desktop that does what it is supposed to do.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
It teaches you the value of getting things done in a simple and straight forward way. I'm working with people who have grown up with Java and it shows. They tend to overcomplicate everything.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
They used Go because it was the best fit for the task. Anders explained the reasons very well.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Yes they will if the are told so by their leaders. Brain washing works.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
I've played with it for a bit but it doesn't excite me enough to spend time learning it properly. I also don't care about Python beyond using it for learning algorithms and maybe some smaller Pyside UIs. However, together wi
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Algorithms are a lot easier to understand when they are written in Python. I'm actually right now documenting medium size Java codebase by writing pseudocode, which looks like Python. Just by doing that, I've already discovered mu
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by zeroc8 1y ago
The truth is, it doesn't really matter. What's important is that we have an alternative to keep Microsoft and Apple honest. If they overdo it with their crappy ideas - like showing ads in the start menu or recording the desktop -
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by zeroc8 1y ago
That's what I want too. But I fear that even if such a machine existed, the spirit wouldn't be there. Just like no one forms bands or makes personal websites anymore.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
But doing away with that crap was what drew lots of old skool coders in in the first place. Myself included. Now I need 10x the resources to do anything compared to my Delphi 6 and PHP 3 days. It sucks.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
My dayjob involves a lot of Java, but the problem I'm working on seems to be a really good fit for a functional language. I've played around with Erlang, Elixir, Clojure and F#. The problem is that I'm always worried about g
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by zeroc8 1y ago
I've had good success in the past using the old, non object oriented Blitz Basic, which is a basic dialect enabling you to program simple 2d shooter games within two or three screen pages. Not sure what I'd use today though. I thi
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by zeroc8 1y ago
It's not a cushion job. At least not when you are working on a huge codebase together with lots of other developers.
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by zeroc8 1y ago
Well, of course I'm not denying any of that. The US influence has brought a lot positives to Europe after ww2. But right now, things are changing. I've spent a lot of time in the States in the past, but now I'm trying to stay
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by zeroc8 1y ago
I thought it would be about Trump ;)

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