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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? by mbreese on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:13PM (#29514164)
My biggest problem with the drag and drop builders was how it played with version control. The last I used was nearly 20 years ago - Windows Visual Studio C++ with MFC. Even if the builder produced C++ code, it was hard to know exactly where and how the changes were made. CVS (and maybe svn?) didn’t exactly like tracking those changes.

Is that any better now?

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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:22PM (#29514296)
One thing I really liked about Delphi was its strict separation between generated and manually-written code. Delphi had a dedicated text file format that represented the form built in the GUI builder. So, VC would just pick up changes in the form file and save them like anything else.
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