[Lazarus] External/out-of-tree LCL widgetset

Marcos Douglas B. Santos md at delfire.net
Fri Dec 1 14:29:19 CET 2017


On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus
<lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On 2017-12-01 06:42, Martin Schreiber via Lazarus wrote:
>>
>> That is your opinion, my opinion is that RAD is the most productive
>> development technology for most of the projects if done right,
>
>
> And your last 3 words is the most important part - "if done right". In my
> 20+ years of using Delphi, I can count of one hand how many company products
> I've seen "done right" using the RAD style approach. And I've worked at
> plenty of companies in that 20+ years. It seems "if done right" is a near
> impossibility for most Delphi developers.

I had the same experience working in some companies.

> So I'm not saying its impossible, just very very unlikely. Using non-RAD
> approaches seems to guide the developer in better design, but yes, they
> could still screw that up too (without leadership guidance).

+1
I agree.

Best,
Marcos Douglas


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