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by rob74
1953 days ago
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Yup... when Embarcadero bought Delphi from Borland in 2010, the pricing scheme and lack of a "community version" made it clear that they were considering it a "cash cow" and weren't putting a priority on expanding its market share. Providing a free version now is a bit late. Delphi is still unmatched if you want to quickly build a GUI application, but the Delphi language itself feels a bit too dated to attract new developers - and I'm saying this as someone who has used Delphi in my "day job" for ~ ten years and as a hobby for even longer, but around 2010 I kinda drifted away from it. Now, if someone would take the GUI designer of Lazarus and pair it with, say, the Go language (which, although it's not obvious, has a lot of Pascal-family DNA in it, and badly lacks a good GUI story), that might be an interesting proposition... |
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Uh, garbage collector aside, Go has less features as a language than even Delphi 1, let alone Free Pascal which runs circles around it.