Peter


I belong to Dremain - mind you that means I'm remaining at D2006

I've watched Lazarus and its derivatives for a while and whilst the IDE has improved tremendously the need to recompile it whenever a new package is added tends to detract from the idea of moving. Add to that the pile of homebrew, freebie and commercial components that have accreted to my Delphi installations over the years means that moving will be very painful.

If I'm ever forced off W7 then it might be time to consider Lazarus and FPC


Roy Lambert

Roy,

From time to time I do take a look at Lazarus, and frankly... Delphi is always miles ahead, IMO.
The only drawback is price, they have increased it tremendously recently.
Anyway... comparing something that is free to anything else... might not be fair.

--
Fernando Dias
[Team Elevate]

Matthew

Thanks that was really helpful. It kind of echoes my own expectations.

I agree that the "wierd magic" of some parts of C# put me off. I guess it mainly just takes time to get the hang of.

Peter,

Wow, thanks. Lots of stuff to read.

It seems like there are more forks in the road than I realised. Not sure whether this is a good thing, I guess we don't have a choice, it reflects the complicated world we live in as much as anything.

Roy

>>I belong to Dremain



>>the pile of homebrew, freebie and commercial components that have
>>accreted to my Delphi installations over the years means that moving
>>will be very painful.

Ditto. So long as Delphi remains viable I think I will be developing with it.

Partly it is a question of "building the bridge", The RebObjects IDE seems to offer that by creating a soft-link to C#, which would allow a gradual transition.

Freeware and Open Source options are also welcome, assuming they develop adequately. I don't really think they are there yet.

Fernando


I don't know about you but I'm still only using a limited subset of the features in D2006. This is partly because I don't know what's there (even after all this time), partly because its not something I need. I have a sneaky suspicion that this would be even more the case with the newer versions.

It helps that its a hobby with me rather than a way of making money, but I often wonder if the additional learning and complexity  is compensated for by the enhanced productivity.

Roy Lambert

Peter Evans wrote:

> You may be interested to read in the http://www.freepascal.org/ third
> party forum about people moving away from RemObjects.

Can you provide a link to that?

Thanks.


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William

Peter Evans wrote:

> I see that the Dexit movement is gaining strength. Dexit is to Delphi
> as Brexit is to Britain. Welcome aboard.

Sob. But I think that the RO languages are actually quite a good path
to a potential better supported mainstream future. Oncec using their
..Net languages, you can work with C# too in the same codebase (I
understand). The freepascal route is another island. Perhaps a very
nice island, and ideal for some, but an island nonetheless.

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Matthew Jones

>>Can you provide a link to that?

http://synopse.info/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2712&p=1