It's amazing, really. A few years ago I was brought in to feature-enhance (80%) / bug-fix (20%) some mil-spec hardware that interfaced with some custom Delphi f

It's amazing, really. A few years ago I was brought in to feature-enhance (80%) / bug-fix (20%) some mil-spec hardware that interfaced with some custom Delphi front-end which was acting as a controller. I was amazed at the functionality:LOC ratio along with the correctness[0] with purely pre&post Asserts[1]. The hotel industry still largely runs on one popular Delphi app that's still chugging away. Other than MS Lightswitch which is dead[2], nothing even came close re: great RAD. (Hey, MS employees reading this - now VS Community is free-for-commercial-use, if you want to capture the 5<=revenue<=50 MM market, replicate the Delphi + VCL ecosystem for RAD apps with Azure as the backing technology. Lightswitch already let me target WPF and HTML5, with Xamarin you now have native mobile. You pushed for an "integrated" desktop + surface/tablet + cell-phone a few years too early, but Xamarin as the presentation layer and Azure as your data-store and you've got the feature set that most businesses need. You'd put me out of business, but absolutely take over that mid-market share.) [0] Pedants, I'm one of you. No Coq was not used in this project ;) [1] http://blog.matthewskelton.net/2012/01/29/assert-based-error-reporting-in-delphi/ http://blog.matthewskelton.net/2012/01/29/assert-based-error... Similar to this [2] http://janvanderhaegen.com/2015/01/14/its-2015-and-lightswitch-is-dead-now-what/ http://janvanderhaegen.com/2015/01/14/its-2015-and-lightswit...