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I don't disagree with you, if it was really good however there are better (more productive) languages that Jetbrains have excellent IDEs for. If we want to tal

I don't disagree with you, if it was really good however there are better (more productive) languages that Jetbrains have excellent IDEs for. If we want to talk about productivity and power, Delphi is now so expensive that it is in the same neighborhood as a LispWorks licence. If Delphi was much more powerful it might be a reasonable investment, as it is, it is powerful than most of the languages Jetbrains ship IDEs for and widely more expensive.

vfclists 5y ago
You ignore that Delphi is not just the IDE, it is the whole ecosystem of components that are developed to work with it, and these components usually come with source code and are supported by developers who are incentivised to make them work. It is the tool used by developers whose customers want custom stuff done yesterday, customers whose time is 100s worth more than the trifling sums that open source developers are unable to get even their commercial users to pay for or contribute to.