Whats New in Delphi 2005

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Whats New in Delphi 2005

2004-12-22T08:21:35-08:00

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Whats New in Delphi 2005 - a unuseable IDE

2004-12-06T14:12:38-08:00

Hello, I must say I'm really depressed after evaluating the new Delphi 2005 UI. I thought the Delphi 7 IDE is slow and big and is starting almost 10 times longer than VS.NET 2003, aso.. But after I started the 2005 IDE I know that Delphi 7 is a pure rocket, easy to use ultra-stable IDE. Although the version 7 was not so stable at all the new IDE trashes about 10x more than the older one. I, as a programmer with 10 years of using delphi IDEs behind me, think that all the new features of delphi IDE (like new, unusable IDE, tool palette that is not-so-really cool at all, docking windows without the possibility to set them to "non-animated", gradients, and so on..) are really not needed to be there if the language lacks things that already are in other programming languages. I mean, is it really so hard to add things like operator overloading? Take a look at FPK - the've done it and it works preety good for me.On the other hand - I'm a programmer for crying out loud! I don't need things like gradients everywhere that makes the IDE so goddamn slow! My potential clients DO need that - there's no doubt of that - but I need a fast, as-small-as-possible IDE with code completion, code navigation, debugger and a project manager that makes my live easier. Ok, I admit, that refactoring has taken my breath away - good work, guys. But whatta hell are doing here things like C# language integrated in my beloved (in the old times) IDE? Are we not selling C#Builder so well so we integrate it so we can sell it anyway? Oh please.. This makes me sick again. As far as I can tell, the VS.NET 2003 is about 10x cheaper, 100x faster and more reliable than C#Builder - so what choice do I have? I don't love you, guys@borland, so much to buy something just out of habbit - I test all your programs I'm interested in buying through and through (Delphi is the most tested one, because at my previous and in my current work I used the 4,5 and 7 version of Delphi IDE and pascal compiler). So do not expect me to belive that things like refactoring need the cutting-edge gradients all over the IDE with a startup time of 60 seconds while having 768MB SDRAM (it's more than enough for VS.NET 2003 though).The only reason why I didn't switch to the FPK yet from Delphi 7 Personal is the lack of WideString support. But needles to say - the VCL support is really equal null. If there ware no freeware controls (like TNT UDC) the multilingual user interface would be impossible. I mean, is it really so hard to do it the-right-for-the-year-2004-way? Why you guys spend so much time involving things like "new libraries" when your "old-libraries" are used commonly with a biiiig pain in the ass by milions of delphi developers just because the lack of real unicode support? Thank god .NET requires usage of wide strings in the first place.By the way, why create some new technologies like ITE (to make the old one incompatible?) to translate applications if there are old, freeware ones, that work just perfect? I mean, haven't you guys heard of gettext and the GNUGetText derivate for delphi? If not - make a search over Google - you'll get the idea what am I talking about. One other thing, that pisses me really of: whatta hell is doing VCL.NET there?! Are you guys really so blind that you can tell that 90% of programmers use pure ObjectPascal in the meaning of object references and safe code without pointers, code written for handling events "double-clicked" from object inspector, wizard-generated methods or even ModelMaker-generated things and other stuff like that?! I could understand an addon for BCL that would make the life easier, but forgive me my sarcasm - you are NOT the only guys producing components for delphi prior to version 8/9 on the earth. If I would decide to use delphi as my .NET language (and I really doubt it) I would never use the VCL.NET while heaving the BCL - it's crazy! Have you seen the size of a small, stupid application that shows a small window with a button and in the onclick event showing the damn "Hello, World!" text ?! I mean, come on - take a look at the same app written using winforms and ask yourself a question: who on this earth is stuppid enough to use it ???Belive me, this mail hasn't been easy for me. Since 10 years (so since Borland Pascal 7.0) I've been a loyal fan of your IDE, your technologies (btw - IBX rocks, but does it really needs to be when you take a look at the FIBPlus components that are faster and more reliable than IBX?), I've been really looking forward for the new 2005 IDE. I thought you would learn your lesson after the complete failure of C#Builder. But no.. Instead you've gone deeper and deeper... I must say - "da svidania" as my friends in Russia say and take a closer look at other pascal implementations and leave 10 years of experience behind me.So good bye, and take care - maybe Delphi 10 will have at least the "option" to be fast and reliable. Here in Germany we say: a Volltreffer - a 10-points-shot. We will see.Best regards,Matthias "Padcom" Hryniszak - a Borland Delphi 7 Personal/Proffessional user.

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