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Last time I tried Delphi Community Edition, I had to give them my email just to download it, then when I tried any of the templates the IDE showed, it wouldn't
by giancarlostoro 2mo ago
Last time I tried Delphi Community Edition, I had to give them my email just to download it, then when I tried any of the templates the IDE showed, it wouldn't build at all, don't show me a template if it doesn't work.
I received an email from someone asking how I was liking Delphi, I naively responded with my issue, but quickly realized he was just trying to sell Delphi. I would have bought Delphi over the years if they had a personal license for $99 or something, I am not investing thousands of dollars on a software where the free trial blows up out of the box (not intentionally it seemed).
- pasc1878 2mo agoThis is the really annoying part. Delphi's predecessor if not Delphi itself was $99 (Turbo Pascal).
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoI would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. The minute they did away with Turbo Pascal I feel like they basically marked themselves as a legacy only company, I don't know anyone who is using them for net new projects that wasn't already all in on Delphi, you don't see new startups using them anyway. Had they kept Turbo Pascal, I do wonder how much more prevalent they could have been compared to now. It's still a solid way to make a native GUI.
- lelanthran 2mo ago> I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. What's stopping you? You can open your wallet to lazarus today, if you wanted.
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoI've used Lazarus, very dated and doesn't look and feel quite as polished, there's been a lot of modern IDE advancements and none of them have made their way to Lazarus.
- pjmlp 2mo agoI can assure you that Turbo Pascal in Portugal was a bit more than that, because around 100 euros in today's money was the price with students discount. As owner of a few versions with student pricing.
- pasc1878 2mo agoI suspect that Borland were doing the normal American computer exchange rates of 1 USD = 1 GBP = 1 EUR
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoBack in the 2000s that would have translated into more USD so not surprising.
- pasc1878 2mo agoTurbo Pascal had been replaced in 1995 by Delphi. When they dropped the Borland name they increased the price to Enterprise levels and so not $99 anymore
- orphea 2mo ago> I had to give them my email just to download it But why? Just throw some garbage - a temporary email - at them if they so insist.
- giancarlostoro 2mo agoI could have sure, but it was for an account, and I can always unsubscribe or ignore them, doesn't phase me, I have like 20 gmail accounts that are old enough to vote, drink, and who knows what else
- orphea 2mo agoHaha, okay, fair enough.