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Sorry, the blog has hiccups with large traffic... Yes, this is a book on Delphi 5 I made available for free... but with hundreds of notes indicating what has changed and what is st…

I rebuild a large number of demos with no change. Well, the UI looks date, you need to manually enable HighDPI (one checkbox away), do a few tweaks. The IDE plugins, those are brok…

Thank you, it was a nice project, partially walking down the memory lane, but also checking how many features in that version of Delphi are still core today -- not just for the pro…

Delphi is single pass today... this has drawbacks, but the compiler is fast!

Yes, sorry, it's an old personal blog based on my own code, which doesn't handle traffic spikes very well

Delphi produces native applications with no dependency, offers components encapsulating Windows APIs, COM, WinRT -- and a great native platform experience. Binary code with no depe…

Ops, fixed, yes somehow funny

The old museum site is currently offline, but if you visit the Delphi 25th anniversary site ( https://delphi.embarcadero.com/ ) you can find in the menu at the top a link to downlo…

To my knowledge, the software was provided for free, there was no economic transaction. In fact, Delphi Community Edition is free to any student over the world. This deal adds supp…

Got it, makes sense

What are you talking about? Delphi let's you build Android apps, not just DOS apps. And iOS, and Win64, etc...

Nice review ;-) I think I read it, back then

You are right about MongoDB... as for "VCL source code" it is available, but with licensing limitations

Well notice that info is for application with DEBUG information, not release...

Sorry, my blog has some issues keeping up with heavy load... I've restarted it and will be monitoring it. I should have imagined, my bad.

"Delphi has a Community Edition now (which is free), but the fact that are excluded from a large portion of the library" That's not really the case. With Delphi Community edition y…

For home projects, the Starter edition is free.

Delphi is used a lot, desktop has first class Win10 support (store included) and mobile clients are cross-platform. Also fast server code -- now coming to Linux. Skype for Windows …

Sorry about that, my blog is self-hosted and never gets much traffic -- roughly 100x general volume

A million lines in 5 seconds, even if this is generated code: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/compiling-a-mi...