Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins

Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by thought_alarm on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:46PM (#30316236)

Borland's VCL was a great achievement that brought some much needed cohesiveness and sanity to Win32 development in a way that Microsoft was never able to do. I've always found it interesting that OpenStep/Cocoa and VCL were released at about the same time in the mid-90s, as they're both so similar.

Even though I was a complete C++ snob at the time, I had to admit that working with Delphi/Pascal projects was surprisingly painless. The compile times were insanely fast.

But I preferred to use the VCL with C++. Well into the 2000s when .NET has completely taken over, I still felt that native VCL/C++ was the best solution for most Windows apps.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by jchw on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:51PM (#30316306)

I wish I had been exposed to Delphi or at least the VCL earlier. After the fact, it made me feel envious compared to using MFC and whatever else shipped with Visual C++ all the time.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by pjmlp on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:35AM (#30321316)

OWL did it first, also from Borland.

To this day Microsoft sucks in what concerns C++ frameworks for Windows development, with C++/CX and WinRT they kind of finally nailed it, but then a group managed to bomb that effort. Most likely the same kind of devs that also bombed Longhorn efforts.

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