marcocantu

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by marcocantu 1y ago
Sorry, the blog has hiccups with large traffic... Yes, this is a book on Delphi 5 I made available for free... but with hundreds of notes indicating what has changed and what is still relevant. A lot of content is applicable to Delphi 12.3,
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by marcocantu 1y ago
I rebuild a large number of demos with no change. Well, the UI looks date, you need to manually enable HighDPI (one checkbox away), do a few tweaks. The IDE plugins, those are broken. And some libraries don't ship any more.
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by marcocantu 1y ago
Thank you, it was a nice project, partially walking down the memory lane, but also checking how many features in that version of Delphi are still core today -- not just for the product but for the industry
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by marcocantu 3y ago
Delphi is single pass today... this has drawbacks, but the compiler is fast!
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by marcocantu 3y ago
Yes, sorry, it's an old personal blog based on my own code, which doesn't handle traffic spikes very well
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by marcocantu 6y ago
Delphi produces native applications with no dependency, offers components encapsulating Windows APIs, COM, WinRT -- and a great native platform experience. Binary code with no dependency = real xcopy deployment, small deployment, memory and
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by marcocantu 6y ago
Ops, fixed, yes somehow funny
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by marcocantu 6y ago
The old museum site is currently offline, but if you visit the Delphi 25th anniversary site ( https://delphi.embarcadero.com/ ) you can find in the menu at the top a link to download "Historic Delphi 1 Client/Server
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by marcocantu 7y ago
To my knowledge, the software was provided for free, there was no economic transaction. In fact, Delphi Community Edition is free to any student over the world. This deal adds support for teachers.
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by marcocantu 7y ago
Got it, makes sense
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by marcocantu 7y ago
What are you talking about? Delphi let's you build Android apps, not just DOS apps. And iOS, and Win64, etc...
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by marcocantu 8y ago
Nice review ;-) I think I read it, back then
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by marcocantu 8y ago
You are right about MongoDB... as for "VCL source code" it is available, but with licensing limitations
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by marcocantu 8y ago
Well notice that info is for application with DEBUG information, not release...
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by marcocantu 8y ago
Sorry, my blog has some issues keeping up with heavy load... I've restarted it and will be monitoring it. I should have imagined, my bad.
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by marcocantu 8y ago
"Delphi has a Community Edition now (which is free), but the fact that are excluded from a large portion of the library" That's not really the case. With Delphi Community edition you get support for 4 operating systems, VCL a
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by marcocantu 10y ago
For home projects, the Starter edition is free.
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by marcocantu 10y ago
Delphi is used a lot, desktop has first class Win10 support (store included) and mobile clients are cross-platform. Also fast server code -- now coming to Linux. Skype for Windows is still written in Delphi! But I'm very biased
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by marcocantu 10y ago
Sorry about that, my blog is self-hosted and never gets much traffic -- roughly 100x general volume
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by marcocantu 10y ago
A million lines in 5 seconds, even if this is generated code: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/compiling-a-mi...