White Papers

Delphi and Electron for Desktop Plattforms

When businesses choose a software framework they begin a long-term relationship for the duration of their application’s lifecycle. Given the strategic consequences of this decision, businesses must carefully consider how frameworks enhance developer productivity, business functionality, application flexibility, product performance, the long-term viability of that framework, and the inherent security in each framework’s design and technology. The ideal framework demonstrates strength in each category by minimizing product time-to-market, reducing maintenance costs, supporting product variety, and facilitating a superior customer experience.

This paper evaluates two frameworks supporting multi-platform desktop application development: Delphi and Electron.

In order to assess these frameworks, this paper defines four evaluation categories and 26 metrics, defines and analyzes a benchmark application, and scores each framework using a weighted evaluation. The benchmark, an RSS reader, assesses each frameworks’ ability to create an application for multiple desktop operating systems and provides insight into framework performance differences between operating systems.

This whitepaper evaluates three frameworks for Windows application development - Delphi, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with the .NET Framework, and Electron.