Well - once upon a time they WAS amazing.
But later they become CodeGear and later their R&D division is moved to Romania. Products become unstable and unreliable.
But later they become CodeGear and later their R&D division is moved to Romania. Products become unstable and unreliable.
I own Delphi and still nothing beats it productivity wise for desktop applications. I successfully used Lazarus as well to develop Raspberry Pi based GUI software that controls various electronic gizmos(debugging on Pi was unstable but I've managed).
For products that do not have GUI (or using browser for front end) I stick to C++.
Embarcadero's pricing / marketing though does suck big time. Well, the only product that comes close to Delphi for GUI development is QT and their licensing and pricing sucks even more.
Yes they are. I do find it strange though to base language acceptance criteria on regex when there are tons of libs. But yes Delphi has its own as well
Does Delphi even have a LGPL option ? Because with Qt's LGPL you can use it in a lot of proprietary systems without having to pay for a license
I heard Delphi has free version. I did not go into detail as I own commercial version and keep it up to date. But from what I understand you can use their community edition for free as long as you do not make more than $5000 per year.
the OSS licensing terms are the LGPL or GPL.
- https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/LICENSE.GPL3
- https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/LICENSE.LGPLv3
- https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/blob/dev/LICENSE.GPL3
- https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/blob/dev/LICENSE.LGPLv3
they can add whatever separate licensing scheme they want in addition to that but if a repo has LICENSE.LGPLv3 in it, you can use it under LGPL like every other OSS project (and those two repos cover by far most of Qt, you can pretty much build an entire OS userspace out of them).
Wait isn't QT free?
Do you?