[Lazarus] Congrats to the FPC/Lazarus projects - job well done!

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:11:32AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> [rant on]
> 
> My issues with Delphi IDE in the last two weeks:
> 
>   - Error Insight (red squiggles for Unknown Identifiers) is horribly
>     broken. My code editor looks as if my 1 year old drew with a red
>     marker all over the screen! More sad news - the IDE Product Manager
>     of Delphi told me personally that the latest Delphi version is
>     better, but there are still many false positives. Oh dear.

My experience is the other way. Delphi (XE10) here, updates it live,
while lazarus needs a recompile.
 
>   - Delphi IDE is so SLOW to start up, and I'm running a beefy Intel i7
>     with 32GB RAM.

>   - No editor option to switch off "cursor past end of line" feature.

My biggest beef with Delphi is that it is confused by having ..\xxxx paths
in the search paths. They are interpreted as relative to the local
directory, not to the project. If you switch such projects with e.g.
"recent files" strange things may happen, but if you navigate with to the
.dproj with file->open project, then everything is ok (since that sets the
current dir for the Delphi application apparently)

This is an issue in D7, and still is in XE10 rainy city.