| I am not sure of which specific thing you wish me to give examples of, so I'll start with the positive aspects: I like properties on objects. They are an elegant way of handling the get/set mess you see in Java. (Which subsequently is also why I dislike how interfaces in Object Pascal are designed, because they don't handle properties well.) I kind of like the verboseness of the language. Which frankly makes none of the subsequent features, like generics, seem out of place. In a more terse language, like say Go, generics would look out of place in that syntax. But that's style. As for bugs of Delphi, XE7 is a notorious example. It included a new syntax highlighter that would crash if you typed in a | anywhere in the IDE. And it would crash hard enough to crash the entire IDE. Where I worked, we primarily used 32-bit programs, but every time you wanted to modify configuration for your project, it always defaulted to 64-bit, forcing you every time to manually switch it back to 32-bit to configure. The user interface has plenty of annoyances like that. I could go on, as I am just grasping what's at the top of my head. But I don't need to make this entry too long. EDIT: Can't post any more right now, so I'll add some specific IDE examples of missing features: Basically, Delphi lacks a lot of 'quality of life' improvements, that other IDEs have seen over the past 20 years. It's mostly small quirks, some of them definitely bugs. One that's rather unique to Pascal, since it's a one pass language, where you have an interface and an implementation division, is that when you write a method on a class definition, you can tell the IDE to create the implementation for those methods instantly. But if you write a public unit method (that's outside any class), it won't do the same thing. Sometimes, it will stop suggestion completion, e.g. showing you a list of all methods and properties on a class where you are typing. I think when it cannot compile your project, it stops functioning. Which is often the case, when you are modifying your code. But the biggest one - for me at least - is how slow it feels compared to other IDEs. It doesn't feel very optimised. Telling it to search for where a function is called (referenced) can take a bit. |
I wanted examples of things that other IDEs have that the Delphi IDE doesn't.