News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I miss Delphi. Parent comment

Re:I miss Delphi by inlineint on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:13AM (#13754783)
Did you try Qt? Creating GUI with qtdesigner is similar to Delphi, and Qt Studio is well integrated nowadays.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I miss Delphi by kodablah on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:45AM (#13755053)
I think the primary downside people find with QT is the language support. People want cross-platform, native UI (i.e. not GTK) in a statically typed language higher level than C++. Even Go versions require a long compile time and don't work w/ the msvc toolchain and (IIRC) QT quick and QML are a bit hamstrung if you want to do advanced things with controls.

I would love full QT with a modern, high-level static language that is not hobbled on Windows. .Net may be the first to get there with a quality cross platform UI (Mono's WinForms are a bit hobbled too).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I miss Delphi by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:19AM (#13754838)
I haven't yet, but it looks like something worth checking out. Thanks!
[ Parent | on HN ]