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m0zzieon New Features in C# 7.0

They remind me of the Delphi / Pascal days, which is no surprise since Anders Hejlsberg was the chief architect behind Turbo Pascal & Delphi and is the father of C#.

m0zzieon New Features in C# 7.0

I suspect most people using C# don't see this issue because they're using an IDE that tells them about methods which are never called.

m0zzieon Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

Yeah I'd say it's significantly better than it was 6 months ago. It's my go-to every time now. Very occasionally still get a driver that isn't great (no different to Uber) but I just rate them and move along. I do still have an active Uber account but to be honest I guess I fall into the category of trying to support the local guys, so I aim to exclusively use GC and just use Uber when I'm in a bind (ie. no GC private cars or taxis around)

m0zzieon Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

We are seeing the exact same thing here in Australia. An app called GoCatch which was a taxis-only app for around 5 years but moved into the ride share market last year. It used to be very difficult to get one of their cars in Sydney, but now I can get one most times I try. Many people seem to like the idea of a locally-owned company versus the tax-dodging (in their eyes) juggernaut from overseas.

m0zzieon Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996)

So I fired up a doobie, and between flicking the lighter and firing the rubber bands, "fire an event" seemed like the phrase to use.

There's something strangely surreal and downright awesome about reading this comment from you, over 25 years later. Huge amounts of respect for what you and the team achieved.

m0zzieon Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996)

That's right, Brazil, Russia and China still have huge amounts of Delphi developers. To a lesser extent so do South Africa and Australia.

Would you believe me if I told you I currently work in a software house whose main suite of desktop products is still in Delphi? We've been using .NET since the mid-2000s (before I started here) for a few of our products, and all new development for desktop products in the past few years has been .NET, but the company's bread and butter and highly successful products are Delphi applications through and through.

It's still a capable development tool but the language is showing its age. I very rarely have to touch it any more but when I do I always get mixed emotions of "argh, Delphi sucks ass, I wish it had <insert any .NET language feature here>", and "oh man I forgot how awesome Delphi was, I wish it was this straightforward in .NET!" Comments such as the latter are few and far between, these days.

m0zzieon Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996)

I agree with most of what you've said, except for it being light years ahead of Delphi. I used both tools extensively in both a hobbyist and professional capacity from 1997 onward (VB 5, Delphi 3) and I couldn't say that one tool was significantly ahead of the other. They were both hugely similar and fantastic for rapid development. In fact I'd go so far as to say I preferred Delphi as its database capabilities were better (at least, in my experience) and I liked not having to package my software with a set of run-times. Although the latter was more important to the hobbyist side of me. Commercially, demanding a client had the required VB run-time files was no problem.

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