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There are more than 100,000 flights per day. So not that rare at all.

There is no long-term vision. The people managing Delphi are all nearing retirement. They are simply trying to keep it going long enough so they can retire without having to learn Java or TypeScript.

Sometimes I fantasize about switching back to native Delphi Win64 desktop development.

As a user, I still prefer those applications over anything else, especially when it comes to software I have to work with daily.

Both Java and .NET have always had this annoying lag, when it comes to desktop software. And don't get me started on SPAs.

In my current job, I'm working on a SPA application for a customer where individual users would be served much better by a native app. But deploying the thing in a cooperate environment would be a nightmare.

But the dream is still alive...

The problem is that there are so many people involved in software development who have never developed anything but still somehow are in the position to manage others who do.

That's why there are so many stupid ideas floating around.

The last one from Scott Meyers was the final nail in the coffin for me. The chapter about auto and template parameter deduction specifically. Since then, I've been happy with Golang and Java.

Just gave the Qt6 version a try on Kubuntu. It's incredible how performant it feels compared to DBeaver and pgAdmin.

The UI is kind of ugly in a few places and having the select right below the empty table command seems a little risky. But man, the speed just rocks.

20 years ago I worked on some Delphi projects, but then suddenly everything had to run in the browser. Now I'm a Spring Boot guy, but I really would like to write some decent cross platform desktop software again.

And the Pascal source code looks so clean.

It's bold to offer something as ugly as this for that kind of money. Jony Ive should stick to designing aluminium cubes. That's where his talents are.

They could improve it by just rewriting it in C++. Since 1998 or so people insist on Java being fast enough, but to this day I've yet to see a decent Java client application.

Speaking of Delphi - they should just buy Embarcadero and make Delphi and CppBuilder available for small money. That way they might get more and better apps for their platform again.

If he had used Delphi, the app would have been a single self contained exe. No JVM updates to worry about.

Mir worked in 2014? Wayland took until 2025.

That has been Microsoft's gameplan for years. While Apple delivers, Microsoft promises it will deliver soon. And then it never happens.

Yes, for a developer it's great.

But then you come across things like "movie not playing due to missing DRM support" and crap like that.

Normal users are probably better off with a Macbook.

But that has nothing to do with the language.

That's what we've been doing for a long time. But that's not possible with today's China anymore. They are as innovative as the rest, if not more so.

and it costs 749 bucks....

They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...

I believe the damage is done and there will be no going back to the old ways. This time around I'm sensing a real change in attitude. People in Europe are sick and tired of all the US bullshit that's been going on for far too long. It's not just the lunatic in the White House. It's the whole system that's being rejected. The endless greed. The bigotry. The war on everything. Peaceful cooperation and coexistence, that's what we want. I'm for my part quite happy and optimistic about the deal with India and I hope more regions will follow soon.

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

C++ is not that hard to pick up. But writing error free C++ code is hard as hell.

Well, readability, better typesafety, less undefined behaviour. In and out parameters, named parameters. Built in concurrency.

With C++ it's just too easy to make mistakes.

It's not quite there yet: https://ferrocene.dev/en?ref=blog.pictor.us

That probably would see more success than the monster they've created. I've been out of the C++ world for a while, but I hardly recognize the language anymore.

Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software. That doesn't mean it automatically leads to better software. The programming language is just a small piece of the puzzle. But an important one.

Only if they found their own companies. Usually those decisions were already made for you.

The layer in Go is much thinner, if I want to learn about a new concept or technology. Of course there is no magic, if you are willing to put the time in. The question is how much time is required.

Java is ok for typical backend stuff, but Go doesn't hide things the way Java does. With Go, you actually learn what's going on, while with Java, you just learn your way around the various frameworks. As a programmer, I don't want that That said, my current company uses Spring Boot. It does its job, but it wouldn't be my top choice.

Love it. What a fantastic show case for Go.

The brutalist style also meant that I didn't need a UI designer for my applications. With Delphi I was able to create great apps in a matter of days. And users loved them, because they were so snappy and well thought out. Nowadays it seems I need a UI designer to accomplish just about anything. And the resulting apps might look better but are worse when you are actually trying to accomplish work using them.

But the fact remains that people are seeing things or lights buzzing around the sky in a manner we cannot explain.