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The company has quite a different focus than Borland of old, which tried to get their products in as many hands as possible. Many a programmer was weaned on a c
by mhd 5y ago
The company has quite a different focus than Borland of old, which tried to get their products in as many hands as possible. Many a programmer was weaned on a cheap copy of Turbo Pascal or Turbo-C.
Idera, on the other hand, caters to enterprises. I haven't had a deep look at Delphi in recent years, but if it's the same as ExtJs now (another company bought up by them), I don't see it as a viable option, compared to C# for most small business developers who still need to make UI apps (and on the pure hobbyist end, you've got Lazarus).
I leave the language complaints to the Rust brigade.
- tssva 5y agoOn the hobbyist end there is also the free community edition of Delphi.
- mhd 5y agoThat's the one you can't have on the same computer as the community edition of C++ Builder? Yeah. I've been burned by GPL'd ExtJs, I'm not touching Idera's handouts anymore.
- speed_spread 5y agoFunny you left the complaints to the brigade. I actually found in Rust what I had been missing from Pascal since my Delphi years: a sane, structured system programming language. Having a Delphi equivalent for Rust would be a dream. The build times are never going to match Pascal's single pass compiler, though.