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Borland Announces the Return of the Turbo Products, with Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the save-us-turboman dept.

Leonel writes "Borland Software's Developer Tools Group just announced the return of the Turbo line of products. With free and cheap versions, it's aimed at students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals. More information is available at the the Turbo Explorer website, including a video of the Adventures of TurboMan."

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  1. Coincidence? by Rob86TA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting that the Borland tools are being released close to the end of the free year of MS's Express line (ending in Nov. I believe). Could Borland be preparing to take on the MS developer tool chain again?

    Considering that Visual Studio is a highly evolved (I know, this is ALWAYS open for debate on /.) tool chain. It'll be fun to see if Borland can bring anything new and unique to compete with the VS Express Editions.

  2. motivation? by wmeyer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your motivation? How is productivity as a motivation?

    Delphi has been my tool of choice for the last 11 years. It remains the
    most productive development tool I have used.

    Agile processes? Well, the build on a Delphi project is so quick, you
    don't have time to fill your coffee cup, much less drink it. So build/test
    cycles are fast.

    The language is powerful, and a great foundation for those who choose to
    move to C#. The learning curve on C#, coming from Delphi, is pretty shallow.

    But please, stay with your g++, and those glacially slow builds. I don't
    need more competition.

    --
    --- Bill
  3. New versus old. I stick with the proven old. by dinther · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't get it. Why does everyone want new tools all the time. Windows is still windows, A button is still a button and the communication protocols are supported accross the development platforms.

    I have been working with Delphi since version 3 and still tackle new projects today with Delphi 6 (Don't want the newer and slower Visual Studio lookalike IDE).

    Here at work I am cracking up lauging these days. Most of the dev team have moved to gadget-land using Visual Studio and C#. As a result they need to upgrade all the dev machines (Again) and find out that the resources sucked up by the bloatware .net platform leaves them with very little working power. There all stressed and tearing their hair out when a server spits blood because they can't see inside!

    In the mean time our old and trusty properly hand coded applications keep scaling up on ever more powerful hardware showing there is many more years of use in the old and proven.

    I believe I am more productive using Delphi today than a whole line up of fancy Microsoft fanboy developers because I have access to absolutely amazing free library source code build and refined by users over the years. A massive Delphi and Windows API knowledge base indexed by Google newsgroups, a solid grounded knowledge of my tools and libraries and last but not least a very supportive Delphi user base.

    I hope this Turbo initiative will bring more developers to their senses and start coding again instead of playing with shiny black box Microsoft crap.