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