On 10/21/18 7:36 AM, Andre Pany wrote:
While talking about bindings, do not forget Delphi. It has still a good
eco system. Combining Delphi's advanced Runtime reflection capabilities
with D's advanced compile reflection capabilities opens this eco system.
I created a proof of concept and the results were really promising.
Using Delphi components is very easy and the wrapper code on D side is
very thin.
Even clicking together a Firemonkey ui in Delphi and writing all code in
D works fine.
Delphi is available for windows, Mac os, Android and IPhone. Linux
support is somehow planned. It is free for personal use.
See an example here
https://github.com/andre2007/delta-fmx-10-2-1/blob/master/examples/gui1/source/app.d
Due to very limited time resources I have no time to work on this
specific topic at the moment but everyone is free to use these base
research results.
Side remark: Lazarus (free pascal) is planning to add the same advanced
Runtime reflection capabilities as Delphi.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I'm somewhat ashamed to say I didn't
know Delphi was still around!
For those younger programmers out there, Delphi is a Pascal-based system
that was key in popularizing what we used to call "RAD" tools ("Rapid
Application Development") such as Visual Basic, and the modern
GUI-builder tools they've evolved (or devolved?) into.
I have to admit, I've somehow managed to write code all the way from the
late 1980's through today without ever learning or writing any Pascal.
But I do know Delphi was very respectable back in the day (with a
somewhat Basic-like, but more capable, syntax), so it's nice to know
it's still around and even supports modern mobile, which is really kinda
cool.
