Is delphi dying?

#1

Post by sudeep1 » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 2:07 PM UTC

Nowadays in the Internet in the place like hackernews, i really can not find people talking about delphi.

Is it active or it is dead already? Is it good to start learning delphi now?

Re: Is delphi dying?

#2

Post by dli282 » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 2:16 PM UTC

Still very much active.

Re: Is delphi dying?

#3

Post by grkovalev » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

dli282 wrote: post #2

Still very much active.

but i don't see any reasons for learning it.

Re: Is delphi dying?

#4

Post by mathattack » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

I'm not intending to be snide or rude, but it's been so many years since I've heard it mentioned that I assumed it was dead.

Re: Is delphi dying?

#5

Post by taprun » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 3:27 PM UTC

It looks like demand for Delphi programmers is down by roughly 2/3 since 2006 (relative to other languages). Source: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=delphi&l=

Re: Is delphi dying?

#6

Post by 27182818284 » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #4

I'm not intending to be snide or rude, but it's been so many years since I've heard it mentioned that I assumed it was dead.

This was my reaction too. Something like "Holy crap! I forgot about that language"

Re: Is delphi dying?

#7

Post by 27182818284 » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

I think it is objectively hard to measure this sorta stuff, but considering there are 2,139 jobs listed using an aggregating job search engine for delphi. Compare to most of the other language and you find many many many more jobs. so by that measure, yes. By another measure, maybe not.

Re: Is delphi dying?

#8

Post by mathattack » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 6:24 PM UTC

27182818284 wrote: post #6

mathattack wrote: post #4

I'm not intending to be snide or rude, but it's been so many years since I've heard it mentioned that I assumed it was dead.

This was my reaction too. Something like "Holy crap! I forgot about that language"

At least we're not making this comment about a person!

Re: Is delphi dying?

#9

Post by sudeep1 » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

dli282 wrote: post #2

Still very much active.

I do not see it active anywhere.

Re: Is delphi dying?

#10

Post by michaeldhopkins » Thu, Jan 16, 2014, 7:54 PM UTC

I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are declining, few new projects use Delphi, and while there are web frameworks, app development frameworks, etc., they really only exist to help existing developers and are not remarkable enough to be worth learning the language.