[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 07:09:18AM -0700, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>wrote:
> >
> > If you can deal with Delphi, and can be substituted by PHP programmers, you
> > are doing something wrong.
> 
> What is wrong about web programming in Delphi/FPC ?

Nothing, I've done so in 2 of my 3 fulltime jobs.

The point was that when doing it, if you have problems competing with PHP,
then I suggest you need to change your angle. 

Examples:

in the first job I did a webfrontend (using indyhttpserver +SSL) 
multi dimensionally analysing realtime data.

in the second job, for a vendor of webbased auction systems, it was
paramount that never outdated data was shown, so caching of any critical
data was not allowed unless you could guarantee it was up to date. (used
component and scripting/templating system: webhub, www.href.com)

> Of course it can be substituted, PHP is older and many people know it
> already, but there's too few Delphi/FPC developers out there, at least
> that's what my boss always tells me, if it wasn't so we wouldn't have to
> get people with C-ish background into our team.  Of course PHP can't
> replace Delphi but on the web side of things.  that's another story.

IMHO PHP can't compete with Delphi (or e.g. C#/ASP.NET) on the website
either. It is the bottom segment only.