Marco Cantù

Wow, the author is also working on a book that is just released: https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2024-february-expertdelphi2.html No technology ever truly dies.

> Too bad that memory management is still tedious I don't find it onerous. It also depends which compiler you're using. Delphi uses Automatic Reference Counting for Android and iOS: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_arc_android.html http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Automatic_Reference…

Absolutely false: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delphi.html

>Borlands tools were mostly used by business professionals. Sure they sold at discount to students/ hobbyists etc but professionals were the core of their market. It wasn't cheap software. No, the early Borland of 1980s was the opposite of what you describe. Borland marketed to the hobbyists and ran ads for Turbo Pascal in hobby computer magazines like BYTE and PC MAGAZINE with low pricing of $49. E.g. : https://blog.marcocantu.com/images/forblog/turboad.png Borland Turbo C with the lower price of $99 was also advertised to hobbyists compared to competitors such as Microsoft Professional C Compiler costing $299. (E.g. https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1987-05-12/mode/2up) ; Microsoft responded to Turbo C's pricing with lower-end products such as "Microsoft Quick C". It's the later years of Borland trying to go up-market with more expensive "enterprisey" products such as Interbase and subsequently Embarcadero, etc. The main reason Borland didn't create much software for Macintosh was that they were a small company and didn't have the manpower to build tools for the tiny Apple customer base.

> Delphi is not Go, you can declare variables at the point of use nowadays. Oh, it seems they introduced it in 2018, some time after I quit my 6-months Delphi stint. http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-october-inline-variables-delphi.h… So, given the age of Delphi (and Pascal!), Go still has plenty of time to be quicker. Not sure what's missing from it, though. Of course, I'm sure you knew all of that, and could have just mentioned it. But maybe you just want to convince people of unrealistic propositions, and claim that some obscure technologies were more practical than they really are. > Just like C used to declare variables until C99. 1. C99 was 20 years ago, 19 years before Delphi. 2. What you say is wrong. You could declare variables at the start of any block since forever (I think it's standardized in C89). 3. What matters is compilers in practice, and I'm pretty sure they allowed you to declare variables anywhere, and also "for (int i..." (which is C99) since forever (as an extension). > write only code bases such as C++ code bases? > regular rotating team members I've just never seen that not becoming a mess > A workaround done today is a security exploit waiting to happen tomorrow. I'm still waiting for my code review. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21290314 . For a start, where are my terrible workarounds?