Component Pascal vs. PascalABC.NET vs. Visual Basic vs. Webix Grid Comparison Chart

The new generation Pascal programming language combines the simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions, and the broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework. Free, simple, and powerful IDE. Built-in form designer for rapid development of Windows desktop applications. Download the latest version of PascalABC.NET with a build-in form designer. Several extensions of the Pascal language, including the foreach operator, in-block variable definitions, auto type deduction in variable definitions, simplified syntax of units, method implementations inside classes and records, a new operator for object construction, anonymous classes, auto-classes, BigIntegers, etc. The most modern features of programming languages like n-dimensional dynamic arrays, generics, interfaces, operator overloading, exceptions, garbage collection, and lambda expressions. IDE with integrated debugger, IntelliSense system, code templates, and code auto-formatting.

Webix Grid is a standalone JavaScript DataGrid component (table/grid UI widget) that is optimized for high-performance, large-dataset scenarios, and is designed to be dropped into web applications where tabular data needs to be displayed, edited, filtered, sorted, etc. Key positioning points: Lightweight: you don’t have to bring in the full Webix UI library if you only need the grid. Focused on “just the grid” use-case rather than a full UI framework. Feature-rich, offering a wide set of capabilities for enterprise-style data apps: - Virtual scrolling - Frozen columns - Inline editing - Sorting - Filtering - Grouping - Column resizing - Column reordering - Multi-line headers - Row selection - Cell selection - Copy/paste - Excel export - PDF export - CSV export - Paging - Validation - Undo/redo - Drag and drop - Spanning cells - Context menus - Keyboard navigation - Conditional formatting - Column summaries - Custom rendering - Live updates