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Don’t disagree that VCL across all the platforms would be a game changer.

However, the quality and reliability of the Delphi experience together with mobile support overcome the VCL/FMX trade off in my books.

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I had high hopes for Kylix back around the turn of the millennium. At that time my company was looking moving an organization with field agents to a full Linux-based system. Our options were: 1. Keep the existing CA Clipper accounts receivable/accounts payable apps and run on emulated DOS. 2. Attempt to leverage the Harbour language (CA Clipper compatible web based thing). 3. Rewrite the system in Delphi/Kylix. We actually got fairly far with Kylix and I'll always be a fan of Delphi. In the end a pure web-based rewrite won over all those original options. I feel bad for whomever took over that old PHP4 stuff!

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