OT: system languages

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 14:44:35 UTC, a11e99z wrote:
> One dude says: "*The PM comes up to me and says: "Here's metal 
> for you on RS-485. Make a utility for its configuration and 
> settings in 3 days.*". Well, I chose a Rust... And after 2 
> months they fire me. Then they take a guy who got everything on 
> Delphi in 4 hours. Everyone is happy. Well, except for me."
>
> This *unknown* task takes for me (or I will ask for it 
> probably):
> Qt, Delphi - same 4 hours
> C#+WindowsForms(that is dead already) - 1day
> Dlang+ncurses(?) - 2-3 days
> Rust+ncurses(?) - 2-5 days
> Go+... - probably not.
> Nim,Zig.. - need to learn. not this time.
>
> And you sit and reflectioning about system languages, your 
> place in the world etc ...

In D with Adams minigui lib I had replaced an existing C++ Qt GUI 
in about 45 minutes.