as a an older c/java and linux guy who still remembers the "good old" turbo pascal days in the 80 and 90ties:
got a job offer today which asked for delphi knowhow -> i thought, delphi is somewhere in "zombie"-state - as a former windows/rad tool replaced by .net/c#, java and whatever - but in the tiobe-language index its [still|again] within the top10 ...
any comments/insights!? :)
cheers v.
I recently downloaded a trial of Embarcadero's RAD Studio 10 Seattle (I know :). Using the Delphi in it. Only tried it a little so far, but what I tried is quite good. Still quite fast compiling/linking, it seems (though only tried on small projects so far). Also all the other RAD stuff is still good like in earlier versions (thankfully I seem to have avoided a few interim versions which I heard were buggy).
Also as mtmail said in this thread, this older post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543
has lots of discussion on it. I had commented there too.
https://thequickword.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/delphi-program...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543
If Delphi is poor, I'd like to be Delphi :)
How many people have and use Maseratis and Porsche's vs. run-of-the-mill sedans?