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I thought Delphi was mostly dead. I saw a job listing recently and thought it would be kind of cool to go back to it. But when I checked the Tiobe index it's st

I thought Delphi was mostly dead. I saw a job listing recently and thought it would be kind of cool to go back to it. But when I checked the Tiobe index it's still quite popular at number 11, notably it's above Swift and Objective-C, so apparently it's far from dead.

robocat 9y ago
It isn't dead, but it should be: I sometimes support legacy Delphi code. We use the XE7 version of the IDE, which is excruciatingly slow on a laptop with an i7 7700HQ processor, fast nVME SSD, and 32GB RAM. Oh, the IDE is 32 bit so it runs out of memory. The IDE also crashes a lot (I have never heard of a stable release of any version of Delphi). Our codebase still compiles on Delphi 7 (from 2002) because it is a better developer experience than thier modern versions... Trying to find good components was easy in 2002, but it can be impossible now. All the good component developers moved on to more profitable targets. You can't find good open source components because no developer can afford the annual costs to get new versions of the compiler and compile components.