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Re:Why I Choose Delphi by pjmlp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:22AM (#14909632)
I imagine you never used Qt, Gtk, Motif, NeXTStep, XAML, iOS or Android layout managers, for citing a few possible examples.
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Re:Why I Choose Delphi by rodorgas on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:00PM (#14914074)
True, iOS and Android have fairly decent native render engines.

Other technologies cited are very limited, not even close to what current web technologies offer.

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Re:Why I Choose Delphi by pjmlp on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:58PM (#14915077)
Given my experience in both worlds, I fail to see in what aspect web can beat those native layout engines.

Because until recently even basic stuff like centering text or grid layouts were an exercise in frustration.

Not to mention the magical incantation dance with CSS transforms to try to force a browser to use hardware acceleration.

Or nonsense like Shadom DOM to be able to define some sort of components, which are only properly supported on Chrome.

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