Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
by Pompidou on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:52PM
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Fun, I struggled with json parsing for a long time, and have done it for the first time with freepascal. Maybe this can help you : https://medium.com/@marcusfernstrm/freepascal-and-json-337c0... ?
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Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
by ctoth on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:47PM
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That is way easier than the stuff I was reading before which said I needed some sort of 3rd party paid component for it, nice.
Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
by loa_in_ on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:19PM
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Third party paid component for parsing strings into basic data types and making http requests? That doesn't sound right even for late 20th century
Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)
by bruce511 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:07AM
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I love comments like this because it shows me how diverse this field is, and how different everyone's experience and expectations are.
As a counterpoint to your comment, I make a living writing high-quality libraries. Everything I make is "in the box", but its not hard to improve on that.
My most popular tools are around string functions, json and xml readers/writers and network functionality.
So, on one hand I'm selling ice-cream in Alaska, on the other hand, it's good ice-cream.
It's a small market, a pimple on a niche, but its big enough to keep me going and that's big enough for me.