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Member since:2012-02-25
100% agree on FreePascal, it's really maturing nicely.
I was doing a DOC to PDF converter in Delphi using COM and OpenOffice and I though I should try to do this project with Lazarus and FPC and it turned out great, and
I found a few things Lazarus does better than XE2.
Anyway the DOC to PDF converter turned out great and then I did a GUI firewall app using Synapse and that also turned out great and these apps are being used in a major
corporation, so the whole thing about VS being great for corps is pure bull.
Seriously people when you deploy your app and the users don't have to install a ton of assembly dependencies they will thank you. FreePascal and Delphi are secrets you need to try out ha ha ha
Member since:2005-09-27
Yeah, I've used Lazarus, it is a underrated gem, actually Lazarus + Firebird SQL = powerful multiplatform native application.
I did this minimum test in Ubuntu some time ago (It
http://imagebin.org/200756
I was surprised how good it worked and how well integrated it was.
People, give it a chance.
Edited 2012-02-25 16:41 UTC
Member since:2006-05-30
Errr... Sorry, that's FUD. Do you know how we deploy our .net apps? Simple, we copy the contents of the release folder to the target machines. Or we use the installer project. Either gives the same result. We argent .Net 3.5 and As that is part of Win 7, you know what? Most already have it. Do you know what? The runtime is generally installed on most Vista and SP3 XP boxes too.
Now, let's talk Delphi.... COM objects, DLL dependencies, database engines (client or c/s.) I've never seen a corporate Delphi app that was a "copy and go". Not that I've worked on, and I did Delphi development full time professionally from June 1998 till early 2006 then on and off till mid 2007 when I went full time .Net. I worked on all kinds of app, did some contracting, did Media, Financial, Defence, Logistics and some general Security including RFID integration, Mobile data (win mobile with in car black boxes) and some cool stuff with bespoke object based data storage (think, Object instances streamed in to a bespoke data store, fully indexed and fully networked with multiple user access.) All I can think is that your apps are quite trivial?
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This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
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2006-11-13
Free Pascal is an awesome compiler. It is totally overlooked by many developers - which is a same really. It supports so many various platforms, is very fast and continuously improving with every release. As for IDE's with Free Pascal, there is Lazarus, MSEide - both awesome projects as well.