The art of pissing off your developers.

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The art of pissing off your developers.

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  1. Well, what do they expect? I think that surface and Windows phone are both commendable efforts, in a world of increasing similarity between the platforms it’s actually different and whilst metro isn’t much on a non-touch desktop, it’s usable and rather nice on Windows phone. They had to change, they know this and I think they also know that they have already lost to Google. Too little too late? Perhaps, but devs have to follow the users. It’s a hard decision to make, desktop windows or mobile, Android or ios? Who knows.

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  2. The desktop is going to be with us for some time, so IMO it boils down to a war between the mobile platforms.  So far, WP and RT is fighting an uphill struggle, partly because of proliferation, but also due to MS fumbling the ball for developers.  The tools are not good enough, and with the demise of so many trumpeted MS technologies in such a short time, I can understand the reluctance to go all in on WP and RT.

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  3. I must admit I was thinking just the other month about where we’d go if we were to ditch Delphi.


    Some years ago C# looked pretty obvious, but I no longer feel .Net is a safe platform for the future. At least Java has OpenJDK which would continue to be developed if Oracle ditched Java.

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  4. Yeah, I also was under the impression that C#/.NET was going to go big, but somehow it never managed to perform on scale.  It would be neat if C# was available for unmanaged code, because semantically, it is a better C language than C++. Personally, I am no fan of Java.

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  5. Java is horrible and Android studio is OK proving it works I had a project refuse to compile after an upgrade because of some gradle nonsense. I wasted time having to manually upgrade the gradle project files to make it work.


    Having said that, debugging and compiling for Android in xe5 is really starting to wind me up. A simple compile to see if code works takes ages! God help you if you run in debug and try to set a break point, that seems to lock the ide and my device half the time. I’d take delphi over Android studio any time though, even with the help system like it is 😛

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  6. Java as a language is quite bad, and I dislike every minute I spend coding in it. But it has good performance these days and there’s a ton of frameworks for all sorts out there.


    And you know it will live long, there’s too many large codebases out there for it not to. It’s the new COBOL.

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