robojam wrote:I don't know if that's the reason why development was so slow. In a previous life I programmed in both languages, and can't think of any reason why moving from Delphi to C++ would slow development by the magnitude that we saw it slow.jens wrote:4) eXT 1.x was coded in Delphi. Development was very fast. XT2 has been coded in C++ development has been and still is very slow. This was Jorgen's own choice.
I think it has a lot more to do with the fact that Jorgen has no interest. His lack of engagement with anyone who is still enthusiastic about eXT speaks volumes to me.
At the beginning Jorgen was very enthusiastic. The very first alphas of XT2 were extremely feature-bare. But at this time Jorgen said he had already coded many many lines of code for many many features and he just needed to implement them - which then took ages if it happened at all. And I think that under certain circumstances it might be more difficult in C++ - to get it all together - integrating functions and adding user-interface access to them.
Why are Delphi-coded applications often so deep? Jon of CoFX managed the switch fairly well - but maybe his toolkit/private IDE was much more mature than the one Jorgen used. I know he had a brilliant one in Delphi.
Mind you: I have no clue about coding at all - but I know coding speed depends greatly on how quickly you can add often used functions and looking at the inconsistencies in XT2, it seems Jorgen doesn't really have a system for it. He neither had it in Delphi, I guess, but maybe Delphi makes it easier for chaotic coders to quickly throw in some stuff here and there.
