The 9-month counselling course I'm taking is making me realize how I'm addicted to control in the things I do. Software development, troubleshooting (among other bad behaviour), is all a form of addiction that I may be suffering from....
In 2017, with the release of Delphi 10.2 Tokyo, Embarcadero introduced a specialized implementation of the Observer pattern into the System.Classes unit. While it has been in the wild for 9 years, it remains a "hidden" architecture for many, primarily because it serves as the invisible engine behind LiveBindings. Other than live bindings, you can also use the Observer pattern as a way to update component settings to the Windows registry, an .ini file, or persist it elsewhere.
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