22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by jacmoe on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:58PM (#13656718)

Do you even know what RAD means?

20 years ago, RAD meant that you could drop visual components on a form, add some events, set some properties, and hit the green run button to compile and run it.

A very visual way of programming.

QtCreator with it's visual designer comes close, but then you have to suffer a more unforgiving syntax (C++), a complex macro compiler (MOC) and not at all easy cross-compilation / distribution.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by AstralStorm on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:54AM (#13658539)

You could try Free Pascal related Lazarus instead.

Netbeans Swing support also comes close.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by jacmoe on Thursday February 16, 2017 @08:47AM (#13659805)

I have been following Lazarus / Free Pascal for years - and, as it turns out, started using it in earnest one week ago. It's great! :)

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