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by kcartlidge 1950 days ago
I used Delphi from v2 up to v7, and recently looked again due to the Community Edition as back in the day it was excellent.

I don't mind paying for software (JetBrains, NCrunch, Wallaby, etc). However given that the "free" edition costs over $1,000 once you generate $5,000 from it (and that's for only a single year of updates and no enterprise database access unless you double that price) it isn't quite as generous a free edition as one might assume from your comment.

I love Pascal (for comparison I also do C#, Node, Go, Python, Ruby, and PHP) but I'll stick with Lazarus/Free Pascal - my Delphi days are long gone at those insane prices.