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[David Schwartz]

Delphi is just as easy to use as VB, if not easier. 

Have you looked at it lately?

It’s just not considered “mainstream” any longer.

People say, “Oh, is THAT still around?”

Yup. Check it out.

http://embarcadero.com

They also have a tool they now call HTML5Builder or something along that line, which is an allusion to their C++ Builder app — a C++ version of Delphi.  HTML5Builder is a PHP/HTML5 version.

-David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz



On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:40 AM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:

> On 2014-08-04 10:57, David Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> Now we’ve got a new language: Apple introduced Swift and is making it
>> available for free, like their other tools. This is going to stimulate
>> a whole new generation of devleopers to jump into the fray and start
>> building apps for iOS — apps that are going to be hard to “port” over
>> to Android platforms, or even web platforms.
>> I’ve talked with Joe about his app. To his credit, he’s focused mainly
>> on the app. But what he’s missed is the fact that, IMHO, he’s
>> over-spec’ed it to the point where you'd need so much custom code to
>> impement what appears to be a simple tool that he’ll never be happy
>> with the end result. His UI design makes assumptions based on HIS
>> experience with *nix shell scripting, and he clearly explains this in
>> the spec. There are no native widgets that work like “grep” in the
>> Android world!  So he’ll be extremely hard-pressed to find anybody
>> who’ll build it for him within the budget he’s demanding.
>> I’ve worked with something called Delphi since Borland introduced it
>> in 1995. Starting with the XE2 release a few years back, they’ve been
>> embracing a multi-platform targeting strategy where you can develop
>> apps in one language that will run on any of the popular platforms:
>> Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android. And it actually WORKS!
> 
> This is what we need - build once run everywhere.  I personally think web development is way behind in they types of tools we have.  I often wonder why we do not have something like VB that is drag and drop.  Instead we build everything every time.  The web dev model is very expensive.
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