Is it possible to take a VCL project, change some configuration, and turn it into a web server? Unigui is similar to Intraweb, isn't it? You need to recreate the project as a Unigui/Intraweb project.
> No, fpc builds, optimizes, and runs exactly like Delphi
> for years, this part feels like it was made up on the spot!If you have a crash, it is usually you doing something wrong with your controls.
No, I remember the event exactly. I saw a post about the community edition here, filled out the Embarcadero form, and downloaded it. No anything added to Delphi. And I had a bad experience with it.
I love Delphi. The best days of my life as a developer were spent using Delphi. But this does not solve the problems that Delphi and Embarcadero face.
I started using Delphi 3 and stopped at 7, migrating to web development (Rails, Django, etc.).
Delphi was magical. Nothing compares to Delphi's productivity.
Rails is good, but it doesn't even come close to Delphi's productivity.
People love Go's speed. Go is glacially slow compared to Delphi.
The WYSIWYG form editor is incredible. I can use Delphi 3 on a Windows machine with 16 MB of RAM.
VCL is fantastic; the idea of components and memory management is incredible, simple, and it works.
Delphi is my first language; I studied VCL code and I love the code, the style. They were practical: Instead of Hash, they used TStrings (a list of strings) and the visual components also used them, like in the items of a Listbox!
Delphi could have been the platform for the web. Imagine a VCL for the web (VCLW), where you could change the target architecture or something like that and, presto, you'd have a web server running with VCL code!
That never happened. What happened was a series of bad ideas for the web, bad in their essence.
And Delphi invested in many projects doomed to failure, such as CORBA, three-tier architecture, MDA... Kylix!!!! Of course, Borland was very poorly managed. The CEOs were crazy. "Let's fight IBM." Delphi was abandoned. It's over.
I tried a new version of Delphi a few years ago. Wow, it was full of bugs! It had basic problems like compilation not working, Random crashing several times, etc. For me the new versions are just a way to profit from projects stuck in Delphi.
I tried Lazarus in the past, but it's extremely slow and I can't use my components in Lazarus without rewriting a lot of things.
To me, Delphi is languishing in an induced coma, breathing the air of the past, which is becoming increasingly rare. It's a shame.
"Over the past decade, people in the community, not just Shopify employees, started to conclude that rubygems and bundler were being monetized by some key maintainers."
Is being monetized wrong? If so...
Is there any REAL evidence?
It's bizarre to talk about this WITHOUT evidence. Is it a witch hunt?
This story is bizarre on so many levels, I have no idea what's going on, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
People are complaining about the price of games, about Microsoft giving up exclusivity on some games...
I've seen this happen in many markets. When no one uses the internet and annual growth is 1,000%, everyone tries to attract an audience. Free internet access, free email, etc.
Big budgets are very encouraging in growing markets (Sony surpassed Concord with a budget of 600 million, according to some sources). It's a gold rush.
When the market stops growing, everything free disappears and everyone tries to make money in every way.
Some numbers in the gaming market probably indicate the end of growth, so prices are starting to rise more sharply. The price of older consoles hasn't dropped, the end of exclusivity (having access to more people with the same game), you have to pay to access online games, etc. The idea is to squeeze every penny out of every player.
This is also happening with streaming now.
The big risk is pushing too hard and losing the audience.
I have no idea what will happen, but I bet piracy will increase significantly in the coming years, and the industry will start trying to discontinue older games and eliminate cheap ways to play, forcing cloud gaming.
Mobile games are a different story; they're essentially a casino disguised as gambling, making money off of sick people (the whales).
Maybe Steam will be the last refuge from all this. Or it will become the same thing...
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