[FpUser]

Delphi and it's opensource cousin Lazarus/Freepascal are doing just fine and I use those to implement desktop applications. Single exe with no dependencies. Beauty. Sure they're not popular in North America but I could care less. Those tools save me a boatload of time. There is also QT.

"The answers were: These tools were good for one developer or small teams, but textual dev tools scaled better to big teams."

Utter nonsense. They scale just fine. Whoever gave the answer seem to not know what he/she is talking about.

[k__]

How big is your team?

[FpUser]

Wrong approach. The claim was made that Delphi does not scale for big teams. Name me one single Delphi related (mis)-feature that prevents it to scale.

[k__]

I don't use it, so I can't tell.

Checking if the users are all small teams would at least imply that this could be true.