22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by aylons on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:22AM (#13653103)

I half agree with you. It surely shows the massive complexity of large software, for sure.

On the other hand, the tool should help prevent these issues. Altium has visible exceptions and lots of memory leaks that are much easier to prevent or solve with modern development tools and languages.

Also, C aged badly, but the tools (ecosystem seems to be the hip name nowadays) for C evolved, and in a smaller scale, even the language itself has evolved. Object Pascal and Delphi doesn't seem to be catch up so well.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by TimJYoung on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:48PM (#13653830)

Modern Delphi has a simple flag that you can set that will show you a log of every memory leak in your application when you shut it down, and there are 3rd party exception handling and profilers/analyzers that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars that will take care of finding/fixing AVs/performance bottlenecks. It's actually quite easy to create solid and reliable applications using Delphi if you follow solid software development practices.

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