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Comment by vbezhenar | Hacker News Reader

Simple low-level language, high-quality IDE. Why not.

Calling RAD Studio a high-quality IDE seems like a stretch to me. I would choose VS Code or a JetBrains product any day of the week. Unfortunately you a kinda stuck with it when developing in Delphi.

I would assume that "as a kid", when malware was written in Delphi, those weren't really options.

(And VS of that era was rather meh...)

Yeah, I'm referring to the late XP / early Vista era.

Maybe RAD Studio isn't a high quality IDE but at least it is an IDE.

VS Code isn't.

I remember being a little impressed when in some version of C++ Builder i used a symbol from another source file and when i pressed Ctrl+S to save it, the editor automatically added the necessary #include file at the top. This is the mark of an IDE that actually knows the language it is editing.

The closest i've seen elsewhere is QtCreator littering the code with red error messages about the unknown symbol while i'm typing the code together with a lightbulb next to the line with it which, if i click on, it adds the #include.

From a technical perspective the ability seems to be there, it just doesn't feel as smooth and seamless. Not to mention all these errors that appear while i'm typing make me anxious - like, STFU, i know the code is wrong, i'll fix it once i finish typing this part :-P.

In the 90´s, early 00s, when it was used for troyans and malware a lot.

I think the .net ecosystem, as a higher level language, was probably less fit for the task.

When I started using C++Builder (and some Delphi), .net did not exist

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