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I'd love to go back to Delphi and play with it again as I did back in the day, but the price tag kills the mood pretty quickly.

andsoitis 4y ago
You can use it for free with the community edition (https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter) if your revenue is less than $5,000.
- anthk 4y ago
  Just get Lazarus.
  - hunterx 4y ago
    Lazarus? Do you have a reference/link?
    - andsoitis 4y ago
      https://www.lazarus-ide.org https://www.lazarus-ide.org
    - badsectoracula 4y ago
      Here: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ It is basically open source and cross platform Delphi (there are a bunch of differences but from a high level perspective i think that it describes it fine for people who already know Delphi). Also check this video i made a few years ago[0] making a simple puzzle game in Lazarus. You can skip to 11:30 if you don't care about downloading, compiling and configuring it and just want to see it in action. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM
  - chinabot 4y ago
    Agree. If someone is paying you a shit-tonne of money to write a program then get Delphi Professional for US$1400, its still a good product, the more expensive $5K client/server/architect versions are not worth it at any price as third party delphi libraries for database and reports are cheaper and far superior (devart/fastreports/etc) You can do the same with Lazarus without any external libraries. I wrote a fairly polished production system for a seafood factory in Lazarus 15 years ago which is still in daily use. Amazing what a single developer with the right tool can achieve, shame we cant get any young people interested in anything but apps.
tjr 4y ago
I worked for about ten years on a suite of tools written, in large part, in Delphi. As far as I know, those tools are still being maintained in Delphi today. It was a tiny software group in a large company, and paying Embarcadero whatever they wanted was just a matter of filling out paperwork. I imagine a lot of their current paying customers are in a similar situations.

andsoitis 4y ago

You can use it for free with the community edition (https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter) if your revenue is less than $5,000.

anthk 4y ago
Just get Lazarus.
- hunterx 4y ago
  Lazarus? Do you have a reference/link?
  - andsoitis 4y ago
    https://www.lazarus-ide.org https://www.lazarus-ide.org
  - badsectoracula 4y ago
    Here: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ It is basically open source and cross platform Delphi (there are a bunch of differences but from a high level perspective i think that it describes it fine for people who already know Delphi). Also check this video i made a few years ago[0] making a simple puzzle game in Lazarus. You can skip to 11:30 if you don't care about downloading, compiling and configuring it and just want to see it in action. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM
- chinabot 4y ago
  Agree. If someone is paying you a shit-tonne of money to write a program then get Delphi Professional for US$1400, its still a good product, the more expensive $5K client/server/architect versions are not worth it at any price as third party delphi libraries for database and reports are cheaper and far superior (devart/fastreports/etc) You can do the same with Lazarus without any external libraries. I wrote a fairly polished production system for a seafood factory in Lazarus 15 years ago which is still in daily use. Amazing what a single developer with the right tool can achieve, shame we cant get any young people interested in anything but apps.

tjr 4y ago

I worked for about ten years on a suite of tools written, in large part, in Delphi. As far as I know, those tools are still being maintained in Delphi today. It was a tiny software group in a large company, and paying Embarcadero whatever they wanted was just a matter of filling out paperwork. I imagine a lot of their current paying customers are in a similar situations.