Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was still here

Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by superasn on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:07AM (#20389814)

Borland Delphi. It was a really amazing way to create Windows programs without worrying about vcredist, etc.

Super small exe files that just run on any windows platform from Win xp to Windows 10(?).

Also ready made components for almost everything on torry.net!

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by Jugurtha on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:46AM (#20400736)

As a teenager I tried Delphi 6 after programming in Visual Basic (DOS and Windows). I already knew Pascal and wanted to try it out.

My reaction after building the executable: wait, is that just one file? Do you mean I don't have to worry about all the crap with VBRUN432.DLL and all the other files that made my program not look cool?

The executables were already small, and I used ASPack to compress them even further. I coded fun utilities like file patchers, and some interesting network programs.

I couldn't get back to it a few years later because there was this Embarcadero thing that I felt got in the way.

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