There was never anything wrong with Delphi as long as you staid in Windows land. And even there I would say C# (from the same main guy) destroyed Delphi because

There was never anything wrong with Delphi as long as you staid in Windows land. And even there I would say C# (from the same main guy) destroyed Delphi because the interfaces to MS Office and DirectX etc. where much better and much more advanced. For legacy systems I would say Delphi is even today a good choice.