Dunno, my gut feeling is that the decline started somewhere after Delphi 5. I haven't really used 6 but my transition from 5 to 7 was a bit crappy. I remember

Dunno, my gut feeling is that the decline started somewhere after Delphi 5. I haven't really used 6 but my transition from 5 to 7 was a bit crappy. I remember that Delphi 7 added lots of bells and whistles but had more cluttered UI and worse stability than 5. Most probably because 7 was supposed to be the big entry of Delphi into the web app market, which resulted in a product with felt rushed and half-baked.