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I work colleague has a friend who’s been in Delphi since Delphi 1. He recently moved to Visual Studio .Net and finds it far superior. He said he’d never go back to Delphi. But I like what you suggest James – a Delphi which compiles to Win32, .NET and Linux. Maybe then we wouldn’t lose Delphi. I guess it all depends on what secret agreements Borland has with M$ and whether they’re allowed to continue developing Delphi long-term. Also, how Delphi 8 sales go – if everyone goes .NET and chooses C#, then Delphi sales will dry up. On the positive side, I’ve heard of a company on the North Shore (Auckland) who have chosen to go with Delphi 8 and are actively developing in it. Hopefully they’re not the only ones.
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I believe that in the Win32 world Delphi is the best tool out there and use it for any Win32 development I do wherever possible. We are on Software Assurance and MSDN so I have access to both Delphi 8 and Visual Studio for .NET development. I have played with both and to be honest, prefer c#. I do quite a bit of work with ASP.NET and always choose c# over Delphi. With me it is a matter of taste and the only real difference is the language. So if you prefer C type syntax ( which I do ) then c#. If you prefer Pascal then Delphi. The IDE’s are much of a muchness, but I find Visual Studio to be more snappier.
The best reason I can see for using Delphi 8 would be converting an existing VCL Win32 app to .NET for whatever reason you would want to do that.
If Borland could make Delphi into a product that the same code would compile to Win32, .NET and Linux applications then I think they would have something…. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Jollie
Hi all, hope this hasn’t been discussed recently. Just wondering what people think of the future of Delphi .Net? Is Delphi 8 attracting developers and projects, or is Visual Studio .Net slowly pulling everyone away? Is Delphi 8 a viable alternative when going .Net, or will it go the way of Kylix? I understand there were considerable bugs when Delphi 8 was first released. Is it now stable? What do those USING Delphi .Net think of it? Are there those who have dabbled in Delphi .Net and Visual Studio .Net (C#)? How do they compare? (was one far superior or was it just a matter of taste?)
One more question – for those who’ve used Midas / Datasnap extensively – is .Net remoting superior (if you’ve used that too)?
Cheers, Dave
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