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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by mar77i on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:12AM (#22116479)
We do have webbrowsers for GUI widgets and beyond these days. By that metric, Javascript would definitely be a more relevant option.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by aortega on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:15AM (#22116495)
Try to create a browser gui application using javascript, see how many resources it uses and how much time it takes you compared with Delphi, and just then, get out of my lawn.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by Koshkin on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:17AM (#22116504)
Indeed it would - very easy to start with; and, today’s web browsers are extremely powerful VMs.
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