Re: If not .Net then what?

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Kevin Frevert wrote:
"jim" <jim@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%gddj.31934$Mu4.29437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There's plenty. As evident in other posts here, Delphi is one of them. Be sure to evaluate carefully which version you *need* though, as the latter versions have gotten steadily more buggy/unstable, at least that has been my experience.
Well, that's pretty much takes Delphi out of the running then. I create enough bugs myself - don't really need much help in that area.

I (along with 12 other developers here) use Delphi 2007 (latest version) on a daily basis and it works flawlessly.

My experience with Delphi (started way back with D2)

D6 - Best version, ever
D7 - D6 with .Net compiler preview.
D8 (first .Net only version) - not so good
D2005 (first .Net and Win32 mixed IDE) better, but IDE had some quirks
D2006 better than D2005, and after the 2nd service pack rather rock solid
D2007 - huge piece of granite right out of the box. I haven't had to shut down D2007 for over two weeks (doing lots of debugging ). Can't say the same for Visual Studio (which itself is a pretty rock solid ide).

I'm having the exact opposite results.

D2007 sucks up 700+MB of memory doing nothing, unstable as a house of cards and slow as a doorstop for simple code intellisense. Granted, it's a rather big project, but I have projects in Visual Studio 10x times that size that doesn't have any problems or slowdowns at all. Some code even trips it up in the editor so when I hove my mouse over something it goes into a loop of checking-displaying nothing-checking-displaying nothing-etc. all I can see is a buzzing mouse cursor until I move the mouse away. The help file is a joke as well, doesn't show anything for about 99% of whatever I ask for help about, unless I go in and manually search it from the help index (as opposed to hitting F1 in the source code editor).

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