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Is Delphi a dying language?
I'm no expert by any means, nor do I make a living writing programs. But here's my take on it. I wondered which programming software I would switch to when I learned that Microsoft would drop support for VB 6 runtimes in after Windows 8. I bought a copy of VS.net 2005 and played with it some. I...- bgm56
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Considering Delphi
Thanks for the input. However the app that I'm building is an editor to work on multi meg cnc text files. The test app I built in VB.net 2005 took twice as long to open a 16m file as the app I built in VB6. Save times were longer as well. Combining this with the ease of decompiling the code...- bgm56
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- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
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Considering Delphi
I'm a novice VB programmer who develops applications for work and looking to develop some to sell. I currently use VB 6.0 but can easily see the end of its support, so it’s not viable in the long term. I own VS 2005 .net but am less than thrilled with it. The ease of decompiling, the slowness of...- bgm56
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