alt Hacker NewsDelphi had a powerful and easy to use GUI editor in the early 2000s, much less of a hassle compared to building software with Windows' own C++ API.
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ciupicri • yesterday at 7:14 PM
Yeah, but on the other hand Microsoft also offered Visual Basic which was definitely easier to use. The code wasn't as fast, but it wasn't a snail as MS added a compile option (to p-code if I remember correctly) in version 4.0.
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alexott • yesterday at 8:33 PM
Back ~30 years ago, Delphi wasn’t easy compared to Sybase Power++! for example. At that time it was really GUI based efiting
ChrisGreenHeur • yesterday at 1:43 PM
I remember borrowing a book that had it on a cd, it already had the GUI editor, this must have been around 1997 or so.
Narishma • yesterday at 6:59 PM
Mid 90s rather than early 2000s.
As a kid I remember I was lost in all that OOP, window handles and stuff, and could never do anything. Delphi was like assembling Lego. Very similar to QtCreator.