Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by 6581 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:14AM
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Lazarus would be a better choice for current systems.
Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by omgwtf1000 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:46AM
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I run several of my D5 programs in windows 11 and they work great. Single .exe, just copy it and run it.
Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by mrweasel on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:40AM
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Embercado still maintain Delphi, so it still an option, but I believe their IDE is pretty expensive.
Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by e12e on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:27AM
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> Embercado still maintain Delphi, so it still an option
They appear to have a hobby edition:
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions
> Delphi® - Community Edition
> Our free Delphi Community Edition is designed for freelance developers, startups and nonprofits with revenues under $5000 USD and it allows them to easily design, code, debug, and deploy applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from a single codebase with professional and integrated tools.
That said, I would probably recommend Lazarus:
I seldom use Windows nowadays but I did try running the Delphi Ide a while back and it created a 100kb exe file and it was running just fine on Windows 10 with almost everything working including the embedded internet explorer and firefox.
Not sure if this helps your case but it can certainly be done if Delphi can still create exe files that run just fine.