I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019)

Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) by loa_in_ on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:19PM (#37216119)

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

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Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) by bruce511 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:07AM (#37218571)

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.

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