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

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 01/12/2017 08:01, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha scritto:
> 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.
>
> 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).


I don't believe you can give a general rule. The tool must be 
appropriate for the application. The word "programming" includes an 
universe of non compatible things. Something like "mechanical design". 
Designing a watch is something completing different than designing a 
monorail train.

We used Delphi, and now use Lazarus to design the human interface for 
automatic machines, where the visual part is the most important one. The 
RAD approach is the most efficient and productive. But when we had to 
interface the production data generated with company database, it turned 
out that one had to write a lot of non-visual code, and we found that 
RAD approach would just have confused things, leading to unreadable and 
inefficient code.

Just my 2 cents.

Giuliano