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Delphi/Builder have had their own problems as well. One of my competitors was suffering for a long time because they couldn't create 64-bit executables.

• pjmlp 5y ago
  Sure, Visual Studio team seems to have lots of expertise dealing with 64 bit support issues. :)
  • tonyedgecombe 5y ago
    None the less I could support 64 bit and my competitor couldn't. For this application it was critical, my competitor lost a lot of business because of it.
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Bad for him, good for you, I guess. Additionally, I think it only reveals the lack of ability to do a mixed architecture product, given that 64 bit Windows does support 32 bit binaries as well. Just like Visual Studio has been doing since VS 2015. Apparently your competitor wasn't in the position of doing a polyglot project as workaround. Although maybe that wasn't something that the customer would be open to.
      • tonyedgecombe 5y ago
        This was a component that ran under the print spooler so there was no ability to run the 32 bit version in 64 bit Windows. It really was bad for him and good for me. Of course he could have re-written it in C++ and maybe that was what he did in the end, I never checked.