Adding my 2c to this discussion: I saw just recently, via SourceForge's email newsletter, that Free Pascal made it to SourceForge Project Of The Month (POTM):

Adding my 2c to this discussion: I saw just recently, via SourceForge's email newsletter, that Free Pascal made it to SourceForge Project Of The Month (POTM): http://sourceforge.net/blog/april-2014-project-of-the-month-free-pascal/ http://sourceforge.net/blog/april-2014-project-of-the-month-... I've used various Delphi versions, a little, for personal projects [1], off on on, and liked it. A pity that the free Turbo Delphi Explorer version was discontinued. (TDE was released and then stopped when Borland was in its CodeGear incarnation some years ago.) As others have said, hope Embarcadero comes out with a low-end free or low cost version of Delphi. (They did have a Delphi XE Starter Edition, not sure if it is still there.) I've also read off and on that Delphi (and other Borland products) were/are big in Germany and other European countries. [1] http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/08/digital-clock-v10-in-3-lines-of-delphi.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/08/digital-clock-v10-in-3-lin...