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I have started using it in earnest and it is wonderful - and a company can never take it away from you; there's no "we're shifting focus..." announcements. No paid support for broken updates.
I honestly can't recommend it enough.
It's sad that RAD isn't popular anymore. 1995 - 1999 was great with Win95 era, everything was so consistent, good documentation. Then Microsoft realised their "The Microsoft Network" lost against the open free WWW and then the announced dotNet (which took until 2003 for them to release v1) - that was the beginning of the end of the great Win32 platform and RAD. HTML with Frontpage and Dreamweaver was just an okay RAD andbthe situation got worse with "no tables, use div" and XHTML 1/2 movements.
I guess I should have started on a greenfield project. For me it was less rosy. I remember my boss trying to get me started on Delphi. We basically had two or three Delphi developer workstations available because setting up one that could compile the projects we had in our vcs was a three day task - and it was only possible with the help of our resident Delphi consultant. Stuff like that has made me love Maven and Ja…
I started with QuickBasic/QBasic and Pascal. Though I went with VB4-6 instead of Delphi. It's sad that RAD isn't popular anymore. 1995 - 1999 was great with Win95 era, everything was so consistent, good documentation. Then Microsoft realised their "The Microsoft Network" lost against the open free WWW and then the announced dotNet (which took until 2003 for them to release v1) - that was the beginning of the end of t…
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I think they do understand that, they just see their opportunity elsewhere. The reason is the only price that would satisfy the complainers is free, which isn't going to be very profitable. There is a community of locked in customers who are wiling to pay to keep their projects going, it makes sense for Embarcadero to milk them.
That market can only possibly be diminishing over time. I mean sure, $bigco can afford ~3k/user/year, but eventually, that's gonna dry up. Charging for basic development tools in 2017 just seems weird , and I'm afraid by the time they realize that the company is dying, the mindshare will be gone, never to return.
I had a bit of hope for delphi with mobile app support, but the pricing really killed it now that microsoft offers xamarin for free.
Plus, object pascal is too weird for js coders. C-style syntax is a must, even though object pascal is in many ways a better language.
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>I think Delphi will die, but only because it costs a fortune today. If it had a resonable price, many people would continue to use it indeterminately. http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Did you try it? I try it every year (I was a Delphi fan and full time Delphi programmer from Delph-1 to 6) but it is not very good. The Pascal compiler is brilliant and fast but Lazarus itself is unusable every time I try. It often begins by failing to build the basic form until I go through a bunch of steps to fix the install. That's going to put most people off as Delphi never had that issue; it was install-and-go.…
Ironically, I don't use Delphi anymore. Yet, I still help people with it and defend it when is possible.
Delphi is amazing. It only have a HUGE problem: His owners.
You can re4ad why Delphi fade away here: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail?share=1
"Borland lost its way when executive management decided to change the company to pursue a different market. ... ... In the height of the enterprise transformation, I asked Del Yocam, one of many interim CEOs after Kahn, "Are you saying you want to trade a million loyal $100 customers for a hundred $1 million customers?" Yocam replied without hesitation "Absolutely."
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I think they do understand that, they just see their opportunity elsewhere. The reason is the only price that would satisfy the complainers is free, which isn't going to be very profitable. There is a community of locked in customers who are wiling to pay to keep their projects going, it makes sense for Embarcadero to milk them.
That market can only possibly be diminishing over time. I mean sure, $bigco can afford ~3k/user/year, but eventually, that's gonna dry up. Charging for basic development tools in 2017 just seems weird , and I'm afraid by the time they realize that the company is dying, the mindshare will be gone, never to return.
The latest answer has been annual licenses.
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And compile times were pretty fast too
I really want to see Delphi compile times on a modern i7 and a fast SSD. For small-ish projects that should be pretty much instantaneously.