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It would be interesting to compare compilation speeds with Delphi. On a 2020 laptop I7 9900) with 16 GB of ram, I can compile a 1.3 million LOC Delphi program i
by davidhbolton 6y ago
It would be interesting to compare compilation speeds with Delphi. On a 2020 laptop I7 9900) with 16 GB of ram, I can compile a 1.3 million LOC Delphi program in 11 seconds. That's the 32-bit XE7, the 64-bit takes typically 25 seconds.
There are some of us who still work in Delphi. (Yes I know its not Freepascal)
- pjmlp 6y agoI am aware of a Belgian company whose most software that they deliver is still done in Delphi. Also here in Germany there is still a big enough community to warrant having Delphi conferences and articles in all major magazines that are language neutral, like Windows Developer one.
- codr7 6y agoMost of the Nordic ski industry runs on software written in Delphi: property management, cabin rentals, equipment, scheduling of classes and private lessons; the whole thing. I spent 13 years developing and maintaining that system, around 2-3 MLOC at the time I left. I found Delphi awesome in many ways but too enterprisey and too far removed from reality in others. Every few years a new technology would appear to replace the previous half baked attempt at solving the same problem, or dropped completely and replaced by third party components. Long term I found the software very frustrating to work with since everything about it was so volatile and there were so many random gaps in quality and functionality. Their database, Interbase, was pretty good; and well integrated into the language/IDE. Open sourced and forked as Firebird SQL at one point.