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HTML Pyscripter â Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi
pjmlp wrote 12 hours 31 min ago:
Looks quite nice.
diegof79 wrote 17 hours 50 min ago:
Oh, the nostalgia! Looking at the project felt like taking a trip in a
time machine: the blog on Blogspot, the release files on SourceForge,
the use of Delphi, and the screenshots reminiscent of typical 2000s
IDEs.
It is not a criticism. The challenging task of creating an IDE deserves
a lot of respect. Iâm just surprised by the tech choices.
Neywiny wrote 18 hours 56 min ago:
This is windows only, yes? I used Altium which is also Delphi I think
and it's the only other software I've known to use it (though haven't
extensively checked) and we need to just not
marcodiego wrote 21 hours 40 min ago:
No, not a good Idea. We did tons of efforts to achieve good
multiplatform open source dev tools with exclusively FLOSS
dependencies. Take dev-cpp as a remainder of what happens when people
follow such path.
And this is a comment I often link whenever I ser any news related to
Delphi:
HTML [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509
pjmlp wrote 12 hours 29 min ago:
I rather use something like this than Electron crap.
sharts wrote 7 hours 43 min ago:
Sadly you are in the minority. Kids these days havenât
experienced anything but bloated software their whole lives.
Latency has no meaning for them
pjmlp wrote 7 hours 15 min ago:
I may be, however most of those kids are actually using tablets,
which adds another vector to the whole perception problematic.
Still, I try to do my little part, with exception of VSCode,
given some SDK requirements that I don't control, anything
Electron based only has a place on a browser tab on my personal
computers.
kybernetyk wrote 14 hours 19 min ago:
I almost forgot how bad the dev-tools ecosystem was back in the day.
I remember back in 1998, when I was 15, I took on a vacation job in a
car shop (wet sanding car parts) just to afford Visual C++ 6.0.
I also had to order the compiler through a local dealer and delivery
took 6 weeks. But I still have the box and CD-ROM :)
marcodiego wrote 8 hours 19 min ago:
The Linux world was good. We didn't had a RAD, but we had good
compilers, debuggers, source navigation tools and very good
programming text editors.
It was around that time that I knew Linux and started migrating.
nurettin wrote 15 hours 24 min ago:
Think of it like this:
Delphi's existence is a reminder that people will regress to the
comfort of windows if they find a tool "that just works", is fast,
efficient and native.
It is a reminder that these properties are to be taken seriously.
binary132 wrote 15 hours 50 min ago:
I still think of Dev-C++ with great fondness from time to time.
fithisux wrote 13 hours 55 min ago:
It was good when C++ was C with Objects.
Nowadays, C++ is just a beast.
binary132 wrote 6 hours 59 min ago:
I mean, nobodyâs stopping you from just writing C with Objects.
fithisux wrote 6 hours 3 min ago:
It's not C++ then and possibly the autoccompletion features or
more modern
C+Objects features will not work on DevC++
rsecora wrote 22 hours 4 min ago:
And with LLM Support: OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and local LLM
models using Ollama.
albertzeyer wrote 22 hours 26 min ago:
This is Windows only.
I wonder, why don't they use Lazarus ( [1] )? That would also make it
cross-platform, and probably gain much more interest in the project.
HTML [1]: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
pjmlp wrote 12 hours 30 min ago:
Delphi can target cross-platform as well.
HTML [1]: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/fm-applicati...
shakna wrote 21 hours 42 min ago:
Lazarus was around 4 years old when the first version of Pyscripter
was released.
Porting to it, might be an option at some point, but changing
compiler without breaking anything, is not a tiny task for Delphi
things.
I'd say the biggest roadblock would be JEDI which assumes Windows
everything.
HTML [1]: https://wiki.freepascal.org/JVCL_Components
satya71 wrote 22 hours 41 min ago:
A blast from the past! Pyscripter was definitely a top contender back
in Python 2.3 days. Not sure when I stopped using it and why. Seems to
be actively maintained. Will have to try again.
nilslindemann wrote 20 hours 8 min ago:
Yes, I had it installed back in those days. I stopped using it
because Notepad++ (quick check something without getting asked for
permissions) plus VS Code (linting, refactoring, other small things)
plus my pimped Code browser 4.9 (Zen-like Overview) do the things I
need.
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