I've looked at it several times. Each time the price goes up. $4,150
is a little pricey for me.
On 2014-08-04 13:35, David Schwartz wrote:
Delphi is just as easy to use as VB, if not easier.
Have you looked at it lately?
It’s just not considered “mainstream” any longer.
People say, “Oh, is THAT still around?”
Yup. Check it out.
http://embarcadero.com
They also have a tool they now call HTML5Builder or something along
that line, which is an allusion to their C++ Builder app — a C++
version of Delphi. HTML5Builder is a PHP/HTML5 version.
-David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz
On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:40 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On 2014-08-04 10:57, David Schwartz wrote:
Now we’ve got a new language: Apple introduced Swift and is making it
available for free, like their other tools. This is going to
stimulate
a whole new generation of devleopers to jump into the fray and start
building apps for iOS — apps that are going to be hard to “port” over
to Android platforms, or even web platforms.
I’ve talked with Joe about his app. To his credit, he’s focused
mainly
on the app. But what he’s missed is the fact that, IMHO, he’s
over-spec’ed it to the point where you'd need so much custom code to
impement what appears to be a simple tool that he’ll never be happy
with the end result. His UI design makes assumptions based on HIS
experience with *nix shell scripting, and he clearly explains this in
the spec. There are no native widgets that work like “grep” in the
Android world! So he’ll be extremely hard-pressed to find anybody
who’ll build it for him within the budget he’s demanding.
I’ve worked with something called Delphi since Borland introduced it
in 1995. Starting with the XE2 release a few years back, they’ve been
embracing a multi-platform targeting strategy where you can develop
apps in one language that will run on any of the popular platforms:
Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. And it actually WORKS!
This is what we need - build once run everywhere. I personally think
web development is way behind in they types of tools we have. I often
wonder why we do not have something like VB that is drag and drop.
Instead we build everything every time. The web dev model is very
expensive.
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