26 Years... of Delphi - Delphi-PRAXiS
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It has changed quite a bit... and also the hardware power of the computer.This user interface of the Delphiof the original release*26 years agoThis is how Delphi looks today (with the good old light style I generally use, I know others prefer the dark style):The Internet was just getting going, and the most popular online forum for Delphi was on Compuserve -- I know, something only older developers understand -- it wasnt a web site, it was the entire online experience for some. Some typical apps (well, thats my phone):Since the early days, a Delphi TForm (like other TWinControl classes) encapsulates a Windowsfrom user.dll and form operations call Windowsand trigger system messages. Delphi is visual (see below) but has a corearchitecture -- an application form inherits from the base TForm class:Today a form is still at the foundation of applications, whether(see below the very beginning of the base class definition) or FireMonkey, in which case the forms maps to a UI element of Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, or Linux:The video games industry was in its early days, as well (from Game Art HQ ):Here a new mobile game written in Delphi from this* Embarcadero blog post *(notice, its in theThis is the code you could write in 1995 to cound numbers in Delphi and the resulting, simple, application:We can write and compile the same exact code today, both infor Windows or FireMonkey for desktop and mobile. A few days ago I blogged about fetching restdata via Delphis REST Debugger (seeI know not a great quality picture, the launch was in San Francisco a I stayed around a few days (from* www.marcocantu.com/delphibirth/default.htm ):I took a very short trip to Bobbio*(its less than an hour drive, you cannot to much more during a pandemic) --Delphi offered (and still offers) a unique combination of rapid visual design (like VB before it) and a robustframework, allowing to sue and write components in the same environment and in a seamless way. Here is a styledapps, its very easy to take existing applications and make them look modern in a fraction of the time of a rewrite:Fun for developers, nice and enjoyable.
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