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They are still quite strong on the German, market and Microsoft is still clueless in making anything that can beat C++ Builder, the best they could do was C++/CX and internal politics killed without any regards for the customers using it.

C++/WinRT is a joy to use for anyone whose maximum of productivity was using Visual C++ 6.0 for COM development, exactly the same Visual Studio tooling. /s

So plenty of enterprises do new projects in C++ Builder, and Delphi comes for the ride.

https://entwickler-konferenz.de/

I know of a company in Belgium that does laboratory automation software in Delphi, because they don't want to use languages like C and C++, and .NET lacked the low level coding and native compilation that they want.

For them it isn't legacy, rather from their point of view the alternatives suck, and they will keep at it as long as they can.