[DUG] Future of us Delphi programmer in New Zealand?

[Phil Scadden]

Interesting question. It used to be about getting speed of C++ with ease 
of use of VB. These days anything with need for speed is C++. Delphi 
lost it in the Inprise debacle. Nothing else keeps up with VS. For RAD 
programming. C++ is still total pain. C# has a LOT to recommend it. Love 
the bound controls. Certainly dont miss typing begin end endlessly. 
Incredibly rich GUI environment to work in. .NET overhead not so good. 
Till we can be sure that everyone has .NET, it is a pain to deploy. The 
old bugbears of "windows only" remain. GUI in java is mega mega pain but 
use java a lot for server backends. Actually, do a lot with javascript 
and JSP.
Delphi? Well still looking at getting 2009 - life in the old girl yet 
and I want to see what the new features will give me.

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