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July 10, 2009

Nick Bradbury on Why Using Delphi

Nick Bradbury of HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon fame, discusses why he prefers using Delphi in a very interesting blog post.

Nick Bradbury of HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon fame, discusses why he prefers using Delphi in a very interesting blog post. In his "Why I Use Delphi", he underlines four points I almost completely agree with:

Speed
No runtime
Startup time
No dependencies on Microsoft's Agenda

Well worth reading. For an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) targeting the Windows platform with local, Internet-based, or client/server applications you can hardly find any better alternative to Delphi.

PS. Taking two weeks off in central/southern Italy (eastern side), we'll be veru little online. We'll tweet from time to time.

posted by marcocantu @ 5:33PM | 3 Comments [0 Pending]

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Nick Bradbury on Why Using Delphi

 A good link. Thank you.  I think his reasons are
excellent.

For some developers, Zero Dollars, and Microsoft's
Latest Whatever will always be the path they choose.

I think that there's a little something different in
the mentality of the Delphi afficionado.  A
delphi guy, or gal, will usually say "I can do better
than this", and then, they do.



W

Comment by Warren P. [] on July 10, 20:46

Nick Bradbury on Why Using Delphi

I think, things are a bit different that he says they are.

And because he is refering to .net 

Speed is excellent in C# too and startup time is
*greatly* improved after .net 3.5 sp1.

Delphi's main weakness is that is very costly (Delphi
Enterprise costs 2000 dollars. With 1300 only, someone
can get msdn professional subscription and get a whole
lot of things, with far less money)

And let's not forget that someone, can get C# Express
totally free...

I now that M$ has the power to do this but something
must clearly change for Delphi to be compelling again.

And finally, the jobs...Can not get one easily by
using Delphi.

Comment by anthonyb on July 11, 13:02

Nick Bradbury on Why Using Delphi

I think the single, most compelling reason to use
Delphi is that you have full control of what you are
doing when.

Nick's reasons are all excelent and totally agreeable
with anyway.

As to M$ owning the market, that's very true and it's
not gonna change anytime soon. Problem is that
Embarcadero makes money out of dev tools - there's a
freebie however: www.turboexplorer.com - go check it out!

IMHO what Embarcadero is really missing is some
campaign like GetFirefox, if you get the idea.

Plus, good manuals are lacking - Nick Hodges had done
a TurboPad tutorial series, we need more of that!

What I would see as a *huge* plus would be some kind
of Webservice tutorial: iirc, Turbo Explorer comes
with a SOAP implementation.

Cheers,

Andrew

Comment by Andrea Raimondi on July 31, 19:27

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