well, as I sayed previously, ARC on Desktop will be a lot of work, what other reason than a miss of time can it be to not fix an all day bug like this one ?
Or do you think that the IDE is good enough as it is, and all your effort have to be on new features ?
No, I think we need to spend a lot of time and effort increasing the product quality. That's a given and something the company has been investing on. I don't think there is really an alternative here between new features and quality and bug fixes. We have proved in recent releases we can progress on both.
"LOL" was my first thought when this thread was new and I have not been disappointed. Of course is the IDE good enough for "developers" that are not able to use other languages or tools and are lucky that they somehow and somewhen get the result they are looking for.
seriously, what is wrong with people and ARC? if I want automatic memory management then I would use CSharp or go with reference counting via interfaces. Please don't kill the desktop compiler.
What good things could bring ARC to Delphi? Class operators? If it is a "dont want to write try-finally" then use interfaces like Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe said. Or also, the ownership-based model works like a joy
David Berneda I would prefer for the compiler optimise the code, as there may be other situations where optimisation can occur but a final result is not known.
Not sure how the two are related...
ReplyDeletewell, as I sayed previously, ARC on Desktop will be a lot of work, what other reason than a miss of time can it be to not fix an all day bug like this one ?
ReplyDeleteOr do you think that the IDE is good enough as it is, and all your effort have to be on new features ?
No, I think we need to spend a lot of time and effort increasing the product quality. That's a given and something the company has been investing on. I don't think there is really an alternative here between new features and quality and bug fixes. We have proved in recent releases we can progress on both.
ReplyDelete"LOL" was my first thought when this thread was new and I have not been disappointed. Of course is the IDE good enough for "developers" that are not able to use other languages or tools and are lucky that they somehow and somewhen get the result they are looking for.
ReplyDeleteWhat has ARC to do with non working Error Insight again?
ReplyDeleteP.S. VCL will most likely not work with the ARC enabled windows platform but only FMX.
seriously, what is wrong with people and ARC?
ReplyDeleteif I want automatic memory management then I would use CSharp or go with reference counting via interfaces.
Please don't kill the desktop compiler.
What good things could bring ARC to Delphi? Class operators?
ReplyDeleteIf it is a "dont want to write try-finally" then use interfaces like Ugochukwu Mmaduekwe said. Or also, the ownership-based model works like a joy
Nicholas Ring even better, the compiler could emit a hint: "const GetValue = 4;"
ReplyDeleteDavid Berneda I would prefer for the compiler optimise the code, as there may be other situations where optimisation can occur but a final result is not known.
ReplyDeleteWho said anything about implementing ARC on the desktop?
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