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by lewantmontreal 1216 days ago
I have tried all sorts of Electron, Java and Web Postgres clients but HeidiSQL, despite limited Postgres support, is just way too usable in comparison. Maybe it speaks for the datatable implementation of Delphi but I’m not sure.
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It may just be the raw performance. Delphi VCL programs are very fast, because they’re running native non-interpreted right on top of the base windows api.

Delphi itself was also a very speedy IDE, at least back in the borland and codegear days. Can’t speak much to the embarcadero era as that is when I switched fully to web dev.

HeidiSQL runs great under Wine, too, fwiw.