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For me when Borland became Embarcadero, it seemed like it lost it’s scrappy hacker ethos. Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Delphi, C++ Builder were all very innovative p
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
For me when Borland became Embarcadero, it seemed like it lost it’s scrappy hacker ethos.
Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Delphi, C++ Builder were all very innovative products that catered to the individual developer. The Embarcadero rebrand seems like a turn towards Enterprise.
For me now, JetBrains is the new Borland, a scrappy company with a strong focus on what individual developers need and consistently turning out excellent software.
- behnamoh 4y agoI still remember Borland’s logo and icons. Something about the 90s and 00s was special and maybe we didn’t appreciate it enough.
- browningstreet 4y agoThose Borland books, too. I lived with those Turbo Pascal books.
- wenc 4y agoBorland pivoted to enterprise long before this thing called Embarcadero. Recall it renamed itself Inprise before renaming itself back to Borland. Also Embarcadero isn’t Borland. They acquired Borland’s product lines but not Borland itself.
- CRConrad 4y agoAnd the original company seems, name change notwithstanding, to have stuck with the "Enterprise"-y mentality of Inprise.
- bluedino 4y agoI'm sure they made a great amount of money doing Turbo C/Pascal via mail order but that market is only so big. You need the $1,200 compiler suites to make the real cash.
- nottorp 4y agoJetBrains is subscription pricing now.
- chinabot 4y agoEven though I own the latest Delphi Compiler it still seems 2 steps forward and 2 steps back each release, yes it gets better but they always seem to screw some little thing up which you need to work around (high DPI Issues, tcategorypanelgroup and IDE not repainting properly etc since my update from 10.3 to 11.1) 90% of their market is Win32 so I really dont understand why they concentrate 90% their development outside of this.