22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by tazjin on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:48AM (#13652335)

It's not just that the language is bad, it's also that the ecosystem encourages bloat and terrible implementations with layers of fixes glued on top of each other.

My current main work laptop (a pre-TouchBar generation MBP) can only barely run a "heavy" JS-application like Slack and something like IntelliJ at the same time.

Migrating Slack into an IRC client reduces the CPU & memory footprint of _sending, receiving and displaying text_ by over 90%.

Something went seriously wrong somewhere and we're only going deeper into the hole.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by matmo on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:52PM (#13655250)

>My current main work laptop (a pre-TouchBar generation MBP) can only barely run a "heavy" JS-application like Slack and something like IntelliJ at the same time.

Is this hyperbole? I run both of these with IntelliJ memory settings maxed out on a MPB no problem. Granted, I have 16GB of memory, so understandably YMMV.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by tazjin on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:13PM (#13655854)

> Is this hyperbole?

No. Just checked and this is an 8GB machine, running Slack with ~9 simultaneous networks (unfortunately lots of open source projects are moving to half-deserted Slack networks instead of IRC channels) can easily use more than half of that.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by matmo on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:47PM (#13656996)

Ok yeah, I suppose I haven't really pushed Slack to that limit either. Only using a team or two myself.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by dfox on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:46PM (#13655643)

I would say that problem is not in the language but only in the surrounding ecosystem.

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