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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by legalcorrection on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:46PM (#31238362)
I never used those older environments, but I've heard that Windows Forms + C# captures most of the same magic. Do you disagree?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by CodesInChaos on Monday May 02, 2022 @04:45PM (#31240685)
WinForms did, it's extremely similar to Delphi's VCL. Microsoft's even changing newer UI libraries do not.
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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by nottorp on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:01PM (#31240880)
They stole Delphi's designer from Borland (not sure if it had already renamed or not) and that fixed things for a while. It didn't last though.
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