Author: umbra
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 10:45 am (GMT -6)
2jslegers
Rewriting TC to C++ would be a huge amount of work. I don't think it would be worth it. Also, Delphi is one of those languages, that just refuses to die. So there is no big push to stop using it.
2sqa_wizard
I think you are exaggerating. Switching from XP doesn't mean buying a new PC every year. It's more like buying one once per decade. Some people buy cars more often than that... But I agree, that there is still a significant amount of people using it.
However, if Ghisler decided to drop support for anything older than NT 5.1, I'd be the first to applaud. Support for Win9x and early NT is keeping TC back. Especially in the UI area.
I often read on this forum, that TC must be usable on those old systems with VGA resolution and restricted resources. But I'm wondering, how many of the new features introduced in the recent versions of TC are actually used there. Would anyone really miss them?
I'd vote for supporting only (relatively) recent versions of Windows in a future TC and making it work and look better on them. Of course, there could be some bugfix releases for the abandoned systems. But I don't see a reason why TC should still focus on them.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 10:45 am (GMT -6)
2jslegers
Rewriting TC to C++ would be a huge amount of work. I don't think it would be worth it. Also, Delphi is one of those languages, that just refuses to die. So there is no big push to stop using it.
2sqa_wizard
I think you are exaggerating. Switching from XP doesn't mean buying a new PC every year. It's more like buying one once per decade. Some people buy cars more often than that... But I agree, that there is still a significant amount of people using it.
However, if Ghisler decided to drop support for anything older than NT 5.1, I'd be the first to applaud. Support for Win9x and early NT is keeping TC back. Especially in the UI area.
I often read on this forum, that TC must be usable on those old systems with VGA resolution and restricted resources. But I'm wondering, how many of the new features introduced in the recent versions of TC are actually used there. Would anyone really miss them?
I'd vote for supporting only (relatively) recent versions of Windows in a future TC and making it work and look better on them. Of course, there could be some bugfix releases for the abandoned systems. But I don't see a reason why TC should still focus on them.
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Windows 7 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 10 Pro x64
