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Marco Cantù
Personal blog · blog.marcocantu.com/blogprogramming
Marco Cantù's personal blog at blog.marcocantu.com covers programming. Since 2010, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Marco Cantù's blog for its Delphi and Object Pascal posts, such as on Android compilation, automatic reference counting, inline variables and Borland's early marketing of Turbo Pascal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Absolutely false: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delph...
Comment linking /blog/compiling_android_apps_delphi.html
on “Free Pascal Compiler Version 3.0.0”Submitted 22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks as a story · 301 points
HN discussion> Too bad that memory management is still tedious I don't find it onerous. It also depends which compiler you're using. Delphi uses Automatic Reference Counting for Android and iOS: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_arc_android.html http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Automatic...
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on “Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers”Submitted Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete as a story · 207 points
HN discussion>Borlands tools were mostly used by business professionals. Sure they sold at discount to students/ hobbyists etc but professionals were the core of their market. It wasn't cheap software. No, the early Borland of 1980s was the opposite of what you describe. Borland marketed to the hobbyists and ran ads for Turbo Pascal in hobby computer magazines like BYTE and PC MAGAZINE with low pricing of $49. E.g. : https://blo…
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on “Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?”Submitted 24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today as a story · 204 points
HN discussion> Delphi is not Go, you can declare variables at the point of use nowadays. Oh, it seems they introduced it in 2018, some time after I quit my 6-months Delphi stint. http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-october-inline-variable... So, given the age of Delphi (and Pascal!), Go still has plenty of time to be quicker. Not sure what's missing from it, though. Of course, I'm sure you knew all of that, and could have just…
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on “Beating C with Futhark Running on GPU”Submitted Delphi 11 Alexandria as a story · 150 points
HN discussionWow, the author is also working on a book that is just released: https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2024-february-expertdelphi2... No technology ever truly dies.
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on “It's 29—Delphi, I mean”Submitted Delphi Is 30 as a story · 142 points
HN discussionSubmitted 50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power as a story · 130 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's 29—Delphi, I mean as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delphi and Htmx as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted More on Delphi, C++, and Memory safety as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Celebrating 22 Exciting Years of Innovation with Delphi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scott Hanselman on Tech Industry Promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM AI Tools and the Origin of the Delphi Name as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turbo Pascal Turns 40 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New VCL Features in Rad Studio (Delphi) 11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delphi 23 and Delphi 10.2.3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creator's Update broke DLL loading and it won't be fixed until Fall as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skype is written in delphi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Delphi Community Edition "Florence" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux support coming to Delphi (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Me and Windows 8 (and Start8) - Delphi Programmer Adventures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple 1 Year Warranty and European Laws And a Mail I Got as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google vs. Italy Huge Misinformation as a story · 1 points
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