Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE
by pjmlp on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:20AM
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> I mean, they can hardly have built-in components for every possible use case so I don't have to write any code. What am I missing here?
The eco-system of companies selling components for every possible use case.
Most VB/Delphi shops would get early licenses from such companies. DevExpress is a surviving company from those days.
https://www.devexpress.com/Products/VCL/ (over 210 controls)
So you had a huge toolbox full with components for the majority of enterprise most common use cases.
As far as I am aware, there aren't any company selling components for Qt.
An image manipulation program, what does Delphi provide out of the box for this? I would assume that if you have anything non-trivial, you'd have some custom code to write? I mean, they can hardly have built-in components for every possible use case so I don't have to write any code. What am I missing here?