Hacker News: zeroc8

New comment by zeroc8 in "Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants"

zeroc8 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:53:46 +0000

There are more than 100,000 flights per day. So not that rare at all.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

zeroc8 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:34:37 +0000

There is no long-term vision. The people managing Delphi are all nearing retirement. They are simply trying to keep it going long enough so they can retire without having to learn Java or TypeScript.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

zeroc8 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:22:16 +0000

Sometimes I fantasize about switching back to native Delphi Win64 desktop development.

As a user, I still prefer those applications over anything else, especially when it comes to software I have to work with daily.

Both Java and .NET have always had this annoying lag, when it comes to desktop software. And don't get me started on SPAs.

In my current job, I'm working on a SPA application for a customer where individual users would be served much better by a native app. But deploying the thing in a cooperate environment would be a nightmare.

But the dream is still alive...

New comment by zeroc8 in "Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4"

zeroc8 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:50:18 +0000

The problem is that there are so many people involved in software development who have never developed anything but still somehow are in the position to manage others who do.

That's why there are so many stupid ideas floating around.

New comment by zeroc8 in "C++: The Documentary"

zeroc8 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:47:53 +0000

The last one from Scott Meyers was the final nail in the coffin for me. The chapter about auto and template parameter deduction specifically. Since then, I've been happy with Golang and Java.

New comment by zeroc8 in "HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager"

zeroc8 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:19:33 +0000

Just gave the Qt6 version a try on Kubuntu. It's incredible how performant it feels compared to DBeaver and pgAdmin.

The UI is kind of ugly in a few places and having the select right below the empty table command seems a little risky. But man, the speed just rocks.

20 years ago I worked on some Delphi projects, but then suddenly everything had to run in the browser. Now I'm a Spring Boot guy, but I really would like to write some decent cross platform desktop software again.

And the Pascal source code looks so clean.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Ferrari Luce"

zeroc8 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:10:39 +0000

It's bold to offer something as ugly as this for that kind of money. Jony Ive should stick to designing aluminium cubes. That's where his talents are.

New comment by zeroc8 in "No more JetBrains products for me"

zeroc8 — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:26:32 +0000

They could improve it by just rewriting it in C++. Since 1998 or so people insist on Java being fast enough, but to this day I've yet to see a decent Java client application.

New comment by zeroc8 in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

zeroc8 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:59:17 +0000

Speaking of Delphi - they should just buy Embarcadero and make Delphi and CppBuilder available for small money. That way they might get more and better apps for their platform again.

New comment by zeroc8 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

zeroc8 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:39:02 +0000

If he had used Delphi, the app would have been a single self contained exe. No JVM updates to worry about.

New comment by zeroc8 in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

zeroc8 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:28:17 +0000

Mir worked in 2014? Wayland took until 2025.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

zeroc8 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:33:15 +0000

That has been Microsoft's gameplan for years. While Apple delivers, Microsoft promises it will deliver soon. And then it never happens.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

zeroc8 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:33:05 +0000

Yes, for a developer it's great.

But then you come across things like "movie not playing due to missing DRM support" and crap like that.

Normal users are probably better off with a Macbook.

New comment by zeroc8 in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

zeroc8 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:40:16 +0000

But that has nothing to do with the language.

New comment by zeroc8 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

zeroc8 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:38:06 +0000

That's what we've been doing for a long time. But that's not possible with today's China anymore. They are as innovative as the rest, if not more so.

New comment by zeroc8 in "PascalABC.net"

zeroc8 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:20:04 +0000

and it costs 749 bucks....

New comment by zeroc8 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

zeroc8 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:52:42 +0000

They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...

New comment by zeroc8 in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

zeroc8 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:27:05 +0000

I believe the damage is done and there will be no going back to the old ways. This time around I'm sensing a real change in attitude. People in Europe are sick and tired of all the US bullshit that's been going on for far too long. It's not just the lunatic in the White House. It's the whole system that's being rejected. The endless greed. The bigotry. The war on everything. Peaceful cooperation and coexistence, that's what we want. I'm for my part quite happy and optimistic about the deal with India and I hope more regions will follow soon.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground"

zeroc8 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:28:00 +0000

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:14:13 +0000

C++ is not that hard to pick up. But writing error free C++ code is hard as hell.