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To download Delphi "Community Edition" I need to provide: name, email address, country, phone number and a company name. I can also use it only if I agree with
by s1k3s 4y ago
To download Delphi "Community Edition" I need to provide: name, email address, country, phone number and a company name. I can also use it only if I agree with their terms (understandable-ish, every license is like this). So how can anyone expect people to use it when even if you just want to try it out you have to register somewhere.
- magicalhippo 4y agoYeah that's another side, Delphi's never been good at entry-level stuff. Back in the days the only way to get a cheap copy was to be a student. Now there's the "Community Edition" but as you say, compared to other options it's pretty high-friction. This combined with the years of subpar evolution due to poor management certainly did not help Delphi.
- nurettin 4y agoCommunity edition was 32-bit, was missing design-time and had strange constraints for compiling. It is essentially and unusable, stripped down version of Delphi that you can look at, but not use.
- thewrinklyninja 4y agoCheck out FreePascal with the Lazarus IDE. It's all free and the same language essentially. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/