That is a blast from the past. I forgot I had learned Pascal which seems to be what Delphi is based off.
I'll give it a look.
What would you say is the easiest programming language to use today?
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I'll give it a look.
Man of Honour
It is, Delphi is the object oriented extension to Pascal
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It doesn't over complicate the object oriented part of things compared to java, it's cross platform, compiled so it's fast. And depending what you're doing it also allows you to play around with pointer access of objects without delving into C
I primarily use Delphi for desktop development, then C for embedded with some assembly thrown in the mix (Currently Renesas RH850)
Caporegime
I thought Delphi was pretty much a pure legacy language these days?
Man of Honour
I don't think it has quite reached legacy status yet, although it certainly doesn't have the popularity these days.
While it's not a legacy code base I work with as it's still in constant new development it has been kicking around since the early 2000s
Caporegime
That's what I meant by legacy. A dead language gets no new development, a legacy language is really only used on projects that were around when the language was a big deal. For example, people are still out there writing new Cobol code, but I don't think there's a real demand for starting new projects in it.
We use Go at work.
I personally really like it and you can definitely write oop code with it.
It doesn't have too many concepts to grasp. No inheritance so you don't have to worry yourself about that one in a million where it makes sense to use.
Implicit interfaces are a game changer that really help decouple code and keep things clean and tidy.
You do have pointers and garbage collection means they're trivial to use, but they still give you more clarity about what else you might be affecting.
Plus context, channels, and goroutines make handling concurrency quite intuitive.
I personally really like it and you can definitely write oop code with it.
It doesn't have too many concepts to grasp. No inheritance so you don't have to worry yourself about that one in a million where it makes sense to use.
Implicit interfaces are a game changer that really help decouple code and keep things clean and tidy.
You do have pointers and garbage collection means they're trivial to use, but they still give you more clarity about what else you might be affecting.
Plus context, channels, and goroutines make handling concurrency quite intuitive.
My first programming job used Delphi, did not like it at first buts it was really good. It’s better than .Net as its native code so does not need lots of prerequisites installed. Have applications from 10+ years ago that are still used today, and they run on all versions of Windows.
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Use case really important. C# is great as is java as online resources are great and the IDE's provide great assistance. As someone who switches about in many languages C#, java, kotlin, swift and a lot of python ( Django) can't say I really have a preference it really depends on the job at hand. C# ties you to windows eco system so web apps will be iis and windows driven. I have in the last few years found myself moving towards Linux servers and python for my web apps / rest API's. Anyway best of luck it's all fun.
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