I spent 13 years working full time in Delphi from 1998. It seems to me like Embarcadero inherited the curse of chasing Unicorns and neglecting strengths from Bo

I spent 13 years working full time in Delphi from 1998. It seems to me like Embarcadero inherited the curse of chasing Unicorns and neglecting strengths from Borland/Inprise. It was even more ahead of it's time back then, but when I left the scene there still wasn't even a HashTable in the standard library and you still had to dive down to WinSock for anything beyond networking toys. For designing GUI business apps, I still haven't come across anything comparable, and not for a lack of trying. But the whole visual data modelling idea really deserves to die.