Tim Anderson on Native Code

June 23, 2009

Tim Anderson on Native Code

As you might have missed this post by Tim Anderson on native and cross-platform code, I think it is worth reposting.

I've noticed an intetersting blog post about Delphi from Tim Anderson titled "Native code makes a comeback - except it never went away" on ITJOBBLOG, not his regular blog. The issue I see is that native code is still strong for core software, less for the application oriented development, in which developers need speed of development, keep costs and time under strict control, and have a working solution fast... despite its deployment and requirements. Still it is true that a nice and fast native user interface can be worth an extra effort.

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4 Comments

Tim Anderson on Native Code

 I saw this when it was first posted, and I was glad
to see it.

The thing is that there's always some new "Flash in
the Pan",  that is going to be the "future of software
development".  Except that what actually happens is
that some people use it, and lots of other people
continue to do whatever it is that they normally do.

Native development will always be first, for games,
for commercial retail boxed software, and for certain
vertical markets. I've been a vertical market delphi
developer, and while I could have delivered a final
product of acceptable quality using C/C++ and some
library (like QT or WX), I couldn't bear using the
language, and libraries, which all suck.

There isn't really a native code development system
anything like Delphi out there.  So I'm glad to see
that they're aiming at Mac OS X, which is a commercial
software target market, that will probably be a good
move for Embarcadero.  Writing expensive software like
Kylix for a "free" operating system like Linux never
made business sense. However, targeting Linux
webservers with web-application-services as a runtime
only platform, which is the new linux strategy, I'm
told, makes total sense. Why should I pay for a
Windows license to deploy my Web service written in
Delphi. I shouldn't, that's why.

But I should be able to run and develop applications
for Mac OS X.  Heck, they should make a toolkit for
writing iPhone/ipod-touch apps on your PC. That would
be great.


Warren

Comment by Warren Postma [] on June 23, 17:56

Tim Anderson on Native Code

Go with #1 comment on Toolkit for writing iPhone/iPod 
app on PC with Delphi.

Comment by Mr D on June 23, 19:46

Tim Anderson on Native Code

iPhone develop with a Pc? this could by a Bomb!

Comment by FrancisR on June 25, 00:08

Tim Anderson on Native Code

How long will it take to build a stable, reasonably
complete set of Delphi libraries for iPod? Through how
many versions would we need to suffer before we get to
a usable product?

How well would Delphi for iPod stand up against
established, more mature development products?

What compelling competitive advantage would CodeGear
have to offer the iPod developer community to persuade
them to switch to Delphi for iPod? Speed? Delphi 8 was
not fast. Pascal syntax in and of itself does not make
things fast. There is no reason to believe the
experience in Win/Intel IDEs will port to iPod.

Comment by Ken Knopfli on June 25, 14:51

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