Re: Separate releases: Delphi 10 Win32 / Delphi 10 .Net

From: Anders Isaksson (anders.isaksson_at_REMOVEcej.se)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:04:23 +0100

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:10:41 -0700, Michael Anonymous
<Michael@Anonymous.net> wrote:

>All joking aside, what I hate about .NET is that it seeming
>strives to take away certain programming freedoms such as:
>
>+++ the ability to compile into native code without using a MS compiler

What's your problem with using an MS compiler (JITter)? Assuming it
creates correct, reasonably efficient native code, of course.

>+++ eliminate programming with pointers
>( I love pointers as much as I love html links! )

Pointers are just a tool to get the work done. No big deal learning and
using another tool.

>+++ eliminate dynamic memory management.

I don't think it does.

>+++ forcing me to use a garbage collector when I don't want to use one.

That one is easy: Don't produce any garbage :-)
But yes, the undeterministic way the GC runs may be a problem in some
applications. You probably shouldn't use .net for them (arguably, you
shouldn't use Windows at all for them).

>+++ GC has the great potential to be a performance hog.

Have you experienced this?

>+++ Microsoft's attempt to control all development on Windows.

Business sense.

>You have to use their tools, whether you like it or not, to create
>even the simplest applications.

No.

>+++ The ability to rationally consider other alternatives such as Win64.

But one point of .net is that *when* W64 comes, and the .net framework
gets 64 bits, your pure .net programs will also be run in 64 bits -
without you having to do anything about it! 

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