I somewhat miss older versions of Delphi. I think that today it is impossible to develop application with native gui, no dependencies, small exe size and fast at the same time. Python is great and you can do a lot in it but it fails a little with gui and deployment.
Yes agree, it was pretty neat to be able to develop a native GUI so easily but I always had the feeling that the auto-generated code was waaaaay too verbose, so I don't miss it much in that sense 😉
These times programming was lot faster even on slower computers :)
Per Vognsen
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Even when running under a Windows 98 VM, Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2 million lines per second. TCC comes in at 0.7 million lines per second. This is on a 2.5 GHz Skylake laptop.
I somewhat miss older versions of Delphi. I think that today it is impossible to develop application with native gui, no dependencies, small exe size and fast at the same time. Python is great and you can do a lot in it but it fails a little with gui and deployment.
Wow I had completely forgotten about Delphi. I never used it, but I can still see those old Borland book + floppies bundles!
Haha that flashback 👍🤩
Yes agree, it was pretty neat to be able to develop a native GUI so easily but I always had the feeling that the auto-generated code was waaaaay too verbose, so I don't miss it much in that sense 😉
These times programming was lot faster even on slower computers :)
Well, if you miss the "old delphi feeling" you should try Lazarus/FreePascal, allows you to make almost the same things like Delphi: lazarus-ide.org/