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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by nurettin on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:03AM (#12478950)
I know a great coder who refuses to start personal projects because he can't find UI libraries which are:

1. Cross-platform across mac-win-linux-android-ios 2. Built for a compiled language such as pascal or C++ 3. Built to use native controls 4. Integrated to registered libraries through an interface like activex 5. Accompanied by a UI builder with design-time and runtime states and component builders. 6. Easily integrated to embedded and server-side SQL.

Sometimes we impose too many constraints on ourselves and never actually start anything. Fear of success?

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Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks? by vram22 on Monday September 12, 2016 @04:55PM (#12483591)
Good point. And actually, Delphi matches many of those bullet points. Expensive, though. (The promo of the free Delphi 10.1 Berlin Starter version just got over on Aug 9. First time in a a while, maybe, since Turbo Delphi Explorer.)
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