[DUG] More Delphi news...

[Todd Martin]

I'm not familiar with the speed performance aspects of the compiled code, but 
hasn't freepascal (fpc) already achieved the cross-compatibility 
(Linux,Windows,Mac) goal? I believe they're working towards Pocket PCs as 
well.

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:08, Phil Scadden wrote:
> > 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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