The first time I've played around with Borland Delphi was I think 99-00 and it was good experience. Then moved on and kind of forgot it. Last weekend I thought

The first time I've played around with Borland Delphi was I think 99-00 and it was good experience. Then moved on and kind of forgot it. Last weekend I thought to look if Delphi still alive, found out that it's now owned by Embarcadero, downloaded their latest architect edition trial (they have community edition now too) and was surprised how easy it is to write cross platform apps. Stuff which I've remembered from ~1999 - still works the same way, and you can have Android, Windows, iOS, Linux GUI apps on the same codebase in one go. It's just pleasure to work with. If only Embarcadero modified their licencing terms, e.g not charging ~5k for Architect edition and did some marketing they could win over some space in software development world. Something like Microsoft did with Linux and Open Source world when they changed their view on it. Even if you don't plan to use it, it's worth a try, just to see how joyful and easy it can be to write cross platform apps. It also somehow reminds me Smalltalk/Pharo experience in some ways.