On: It's 29—Delphi, I mean

[thriftwy]

I always wondered how awesome would it be if they thrown away Pascal from it somehow and replaced with Python.

The same topic with VB6 and putting Perl instead.

[badsectoracula → thriftwy]

You'd basically get Boa Constructor[0][1] and the fact that it mentions that it is based on "wxWindows"[2] and the last release was in 2007 is probably a good indicator of how much Python developers would be interested in such a program.

(incidentally there was also Visual Tcl[3] which was quite interesting in that while it had a Delphi/Lazarus/BoaConstructor-like interface, you could modify the program while it was running)

[0] https://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/Screenshots/

[1] (the name is probably a play on C++ Builder)

[2] old name of wxWidgets before Microsoft asked them to change it

[3] https://vtcl.sourceforge.net/

[speed_spread → thriftwy]

It's Nim you want.

[thriftwy → speed_spread]

I don't. 2024 has very few reasons for making GUI desktop apps anymore.

[pjmlp → thriftwy]

Not shipping Electron all over the place would be a reason, followed by games, 3D API that can take full advantage of the graphics card, and air gaped environments.

[speed_spread → thriftwy]

Huh, then why do you talk about Python? The whole point of an IDE like Delphi is the RAD tooling for GUI apps. If you don't want that, language doesn't matter.

[thriftwy → speed_spread]

I'm no longer inrerested, but it was relevant 20 years ago.