The Worst API Ever Made

Re:The Worst API Ever Made by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:32AM (#36952328)

I have the opposite experience: I learned to program with Delphi, and all the React libraries feel like hard, slow ways to make stuff I'd make in five minutes in Delphi.

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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by whstl on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:28PM (#36958265)

Were you wiring up the UI by yourself with imperative code, or were you using Delphi's form editor (or whatever it was called)?

Because GP is criticizing Win32-style imperative UI code... and this is exactly what Delphi saves you from.

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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @05:08PM (#36962966)

Describing GUIs in text should have been left in the 90s but I haven’t seen a better code paradigm for GUI behavior specification than VCL-style OOP.

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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by datavirtue on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:31PM (#36960313)

Yeah,we had this all figured out decades ago and then the web through in a monkey wrench that we never recovered from.

From a webdev point of view I love Vue...but it is a slow hard way to build UIs compared to Visual Basic, Delphi, or Swing.

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