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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by pjmlp on Monday March 24, 2025 @01:24PM (#43463336)
Including being high level, low level systems programming, and compiled ahead of time.

It is incredible that given its heritage, we have had to wait 25 years for .NET to finally provide a similar experience, and there are still some rough edges.

While it offered a way to perform AOT compilation, NGEN was only meant for fast startup and nothing else.

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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by klipt on Monday March 24, 2025 @01:53PM (#43463642)
> It is incredible that given its heritage, we have had to wait 25 years for .NET to finally provide a similar experience

It's even the same person: Microsoft poached Anders Hejlsberg, creator of both Turbo Pascal and Delphi, to architect .net.

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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by pjmlp on Monday March 24, 2025 @02:32PM (#43464033)
This myth keeps being repeated.

If anyone poached Anders Hejlberg, it was the ex-Borland friends working at Microsoft, under the usual referral program many companies have.

Actual history behind on what happened,

"Anders Hejlsberg: A craftsman of computer language"

https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...

And yes that is why .NET not having proper AOT in 2001 was such a disappointment.

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