RE: [DUG] Delphi .Net vs Visual Studio .Net and Midas vs .Netremoting

[Allan, Samuel]

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Without having any real experience with either Delphi.NET or Visual Studio.NET, I think that Delphi is slowly dying. Unless Borland pull off some whizz bang reason to use Delphi.NET, I think that fewer and fewer new projects will use Delphi, leaving only those projects allready committed. Of course, Delphi will still be continued for Win32 projects, but only so long as that ship stays afloat (years and years probably).   I think this for three reasons: one, from the little I have seen of both environments, one looks as good as the other. Two, constant speculation like this right here (informed or otherwise, put me in otherwise) is the sort of thing to really give a manager confidence in the sticking power of their chosen development environment. So those managers who do not have any technical experience of Delphi will choose C# instead. Maybe even those who do have technical experience of Delphi. Three, look at the job market; lots of C# jobs, how many Delphi jobs? Maybe this is a good thing for Delphi programmers, we become specialised. But I want to get my next job easily, so I would use C# IF I COULD JUSTIFY IT, just to give myself experience. Four, I agree with James, for web development ASP.NET leaves Delphi <= 7 with it's pants down. With ASP.NET, it is just a choice of language syntax.   Samuel     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul McKenzie Sent: Thursday, July 01 2004 8:28 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi .Net vs Visual Studio .Net and Midas vs .Netremoting My take on it: Delphi for .Net is that is on its way out - Borland is moving its focus away from Delphi - there is still money to be made ... so D9 and I suspect there may even one after that, but just tedding water with it - no significant advances/improvements...   Just my opinion...   Regards Paul McKenzie SMSS Ltd. New Zealand. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Jollie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:18 PM Subject: [DUG] Delphi .Net vs Visual Studio .Net and Midas vs .Net remoting 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   _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

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