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The last one from Scott Meyers was the final nail in the coffin for me. The chapter about auto and template parameter deduction specifically. Since then, I've been happy with Golang and Java.

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letzten Monatdiscuss

Just gave the Qt6 version a try on Kubuntu. It's incredible how performant it feels compared to DBeaver and pgAdmin.

The UI is kind of ugly in a few places and having the select right below the empty table command seems a little risky. But man, the speed just rocks.

20 years ago I worked on some Delphi projects, but then suddenly everything had to run in the browser. Now I'm a Spring Boot guy, but I really would like to write some decent cross platform desktop software again.

And the Pascal source code looks so clean.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

It's bold to offer something as ugly as this for that kind of money. Jony Ive should stick to designing aluminium cubes. That's where his talents are.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

They could improve it by just rewriting it in C++. Since 1998 or so people insist on Java being fast enough, but to this day I've yet to see a decent Java client application.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Speaking of Delphi - they should just buy Embarcadero and make Delphi and CppBuilder available for small money. That way they might get more and better apps for their platform again.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

If he had used Delphi, the app would have been a single self contained exe. No JVM updates to worry about.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Mir worked in 2014? Wayland took until 2025.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

That has been Microsoft's gameplan for years. While Apple delivers, Microsoft promises it will deliver soon. And then it never happens.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Yes, for a developer it's great.

But then you come across things like "movie not playing due to missing DRM support" and crap like that.

Normal users are probably better off with a Macbook.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

But that has nothing to do with the language.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

That's what we've been doing for a long time. But that's not possible with today's China anymore. They are as innovative as the rest, if not more so.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

and it costs 749 bucks....

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

I believe the damage is done and there will be no going back to the old ways. This time around I'm sensing a real change in attitude. People in Europe are sick and tired of all the US bullshit that's been going on for far too long. It's not just the lunatic in the White House. It's the whole system that's being rejected. The endless greed. The bigotry. The war on everything. Peaceful cooperation and coexistence, that's what we want. I'm for my part quite happy and optimistic about the deal with India and I hope more regions will follow soon.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

C++ is not that hard to pick up. But writing error free C++ code is hard as hell.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Well, readability, better typesafety, less undefined behaviour. In and out parameters, named parameters. Built in concurrency.

With C++ it's just too easy to make mistakes.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

It's not quite there yet: https://ferrocene.dev/en?ref=blog.pictor.us

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

That probably would see more success than the monster they've created. I've been out of the C++ world for a while, but I hardly recognize the language anymore.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software. That doesn't mean it automatically leads to better software. The programming language is just a small piece of the puzzle. But an important one.

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