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I want delphi to die. Not that I don't like the language or the IDE, quite on the contrary: it is pleasing to use. I want it to die because it remained "too clo

I want delphi to die. Not that I don't like the language or the IDE, quite on the contrary: it is pleasing to use. I want it to die because it remained "too closed" for "too long". Updating from one version to a future version was nightmare, depending on a single vendor is dangerous, the way they ignored multi-platform for decades was bad, historic prices left many hobbyists out of the game, no consensus, no committee, no public consultancy on how the tools and language should evolve, the complete ignorance of how FLOSS tools evolved along around the same period and now most languages and used IDE's are at least partially FLOSS makes me want to see delphi die. Make the effort to use or promote lazarus.

wdb 5y ago
Well, I can’t say the total opposite of Swift isn’t great either they make some weird language decisions. I am convinced some of them won’t have happened without the public proposals
Tozen 5y ago
The problem appears to be that the health and popularity of Object Pascal is intertwined with Delphi/Embarcadero. The better of a job that Embarcadero does at promoting their Delphi product, the more likely people are to find out about Object Pascal being still viable and open-source projects like Lazarus/Free Pascal. And it works in reverse too, where those that use Lazarus/Free Pascal will get more professional opportunities because of companies that use Delphi.