[mistermann]

I'm curious if you're familiar enough with other more modern languages and platforms to give an opinion on the relative efficiency of Delphi compared to some of the others? As someone who used to build lots of apps in MS Access (which is similar to Delphi but not as good), I find it takes far longer to build things with modern platforms, although you have much more capabilities.

[chadcmulligan]

I do a lot of Delphi during the day (medical systems), also spent a number of years with other languages - C/C++, Objective C, Java, c#, javascript, typescript, lua, perl etc and I agree whole heartedly. Delphi is still the most productive platform imho, so much so that most side projects I do with delphi. The fact it is now cross platform adds to the list of 'why I think delphi is the best'.

Unfortunately there's no one thing that I can point to that makes Delphi the best, its a lot of little things - the IDE and screen painter, the way you can use pointers, deployment is so easy with a single exe, RAD. The one language I prefer to delphi is typescript, it is Delphi with a lot of functional sugar, but since its written by the same guy probably not a surprise.