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

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On 2017-07-12 19:11, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> This is just to give everybody that works on FPC or Lazarus a pat on
> the back. Seriously, you guys are doing an *excellent* job. Even
> though I am sometimes a bit hard on you guys.
> 
> Having moved back to Delphi (I'm using XE at the moment) for a
> contracting job, I got to the realization how bad Delphi has become.
> Compared to Lazarus IDE, Delphi IDE is a joke!!

Except that firemonkey has wayyyy more complete of a component palette 
set for macOS cocoa...


> 
> [rant on]
> 
> My issues with Delphi IDE in the last two weeks:
> 
[...]
>  - Delphi IDE is so SLOW to start up, and I'm running a beefy Intel i7
>    with 32GB RAM.


Agree, Delphi is very slow to load, and use, even on a modern 64 bit 
laptop

Wirth's law applies, if you know it... As computers get faster, software 
gets more bloated and computers cannot keep up with the software bloat.