[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Phil Scadden]

> C#/2.0 is better. That is an unfortunate fact. By the time Delphi catches up
> to 2.0 Visual Studio will probably be at Orcas and .NET 3.0 and believe me
> some of the features of 3.0 are show stoppers for any IDE that isn't using

Delphi could compete with C++ for performance. C# is competing with
Java. Its seems that get speed out of it you have to go to UNSAFE and
then why arent you using C++? When Delphi started seeing itself as
a competitor for VB rather C++, that's when rot set it. For me personally,
I HATE C++. I'm rotten at it and takes forever to find all the bugs. On other
hand, what I write is often performance-sensitive and trying to escape from
Fortran. Delphi is an alternative but somewhat platform limited. Would be
great as someone said if could get OSX/Windows/Unix capability. 

In past crossplatform has been hampered with the ideal of cross-platform
GUI. Now this is a worthwhile holy grail I agree. However, access to
native libraries and platform-compiling only is a great first step.


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