I gave Delphi a shot, but after setting up my account I got a few phone calls a few days later about it to sell me on it. I was genuinely surprised companies still did that in 2024/2025.
It's 90's tech. Their business model is selling expensive subscriptions to keep legacy projects alive. I was at one of the conferences in my country and the average age of a developer was about 60.
Although it was dirt cheap in the nineties.
If you tried a 2005 technology, don't be surprised with 2005 customer service.
That almost sounds nice nowadays
I wish we had 2005 levels of customer service.
2005?! Delphi is from the 90s!
Delphi is from 1995.
There’s always FPC and Lazarus if you don’t want to mess with proprietary Embacadero stuff. It’s not 100% the same, but it’s a pretty good equivalent that uses the same programming language (Object Pascal), has a UI builder, and all that. It also supports more platforms and even embedded development.