Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
On 2013-04-24 16:54, leledumbo wrote:
The prerequisites
suck, REALLY REALLY SUCK (why do the hell they need .NET framework there?)
Because they had the brain fart to write the Delphi IDE in .NET, thus
giving it the special features of being super slow, incredibly memory
hungry and not portable to other platforms.
Well, slow and memory hungry may be, but portability is achieved to
every .NET enabled platform.
But it isn't true that the new IDE is written in .NET, it still is a
Win32(!) application. Only some parts, like online help, required to add
.NET, so that the help for the WinAPI can be presented from the
Microsoft site. Perhaps also a .NET form designer was added, in the
stupid attempt to create a .NET VCL. Almost a decade of development time
wasted with fruitless and (now) annoying changes to Delphi :-(
Time will tell whether the new GUI will turn into a similar desaster...
IMO we (FPC/Lazarus) should be prepared for providing a new home for
desparate Delphi coders, which will trash RadStudio for too little and
too slow progress, and lack of compatibility, at a too high price.
Failing to encourage this move will force most current Delphi coders to
use better supported development environments, most likely C#.
IMO it also would look like much more profitable to me, to make Wirth's
Oberon as popular as Delphi was. At a closer look it has a GUI well
suited for handhelds, competing with Win8 or other OS for portables. And
as its memory is fully garbage collected, it also would fit neatly into
any .NET environment. Again I wonder how Niklaus was ahead of the
mainstream (hardware) development with his ideas :-)
DoDi
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