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No, not a good Idea. We did tons of efforts to achieve good multiplatform open source dev tools with exclusively FLOSS dependencies. Take dev-cpp as a remainder of what happens when people follow such path.

And this is a comment I often link whenever I ser any news related to Delphi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509

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I rather use something like this than Electron crap.

Sadly you are in the minority. Kids these days haven’t experienced anything but bloated software their whole lives. Latency has no meaning for them

I may be, however most of those kids are actually using tablets, which adds another vector to the whole perception problematic.

Still, I try to do my little part, with exception of VSCode, given some SDK requirements that I don't control, anything Electron based only has a place on a browser tab on my personal computers.

I almost forgot how bad the dev-tools ecosystem was back in the day. I remember back in 1998, when I was 15, I took on a vacation job in a car shop (wet sanding car parts) just to afford Visual C++ 6.0.

I also had to order the compiler through a local dealer and delivery took 6 weeks. But I still have the box and CD-ROM :)

The Linux world was good. We didn't had a RAD, but we had good compilers, debuggers, source navigation tools and very good programming text editors.

It was around that time that I knew Linux and started migrating.

Think of it like this: Delphi's existence is a reminder that people will regress to the comfort of windows if they find a tool "that just works", is fast, efficient and native.

It is a reminder that these properties are to be taken seriously.

I still think of Dev-C++ with great fondness from time to time.

It was good when C++ was C with Objects.

Nowadays, C++ is just a beast.

I mean, nobody’s stopping you from just writing C with Objects.

It's not C++ then and possibly the autoccompletion features or more modern

C+Objects features will not work on DevC++

that's simply not true, no C++ standard version has removed old-school style C++ features, nothing is stopping you from using plain Jane C++ with new, delete, plain-old-data structs, etc.

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