[1899-12-30]

Delphi sucks, I don't recommend anybody use it when you could just use c#.

[nolok]

I hardly disagree with the first part of your statement, but the second half it should be noted that Microsoft hired the designer in chief of the delphi language at the time to design c#

[pjmlp]

Actually he went to Microsoft based on referrals from ex-Borland working at Microsoft.

From his own words, https://behindthetech.libsynpro.com/001-anders-hejlsberg-a-c...

[andsoitis]

> Microsoft hired the designer in chief of the delphi language at the time to design c#

... and Anders Hejlsberg continues to be the lead architect of C# and is also core developer of TypeScript!

[pjmlp]

C# lead architect is Mads Torgersen. Anders Hejlsberg nowadays only has a consulting role.

[lo_zamoyski]

Some make the case that making basic UIs has actually regressed since Delphi/Visual Basic.

[ACCount37]

"Make basic UIs easily" is a major appeal of C# workflows in the usual CRUD-type development.

[pjmlp]

Yes, back in the Windows Form days, since then is a bit of schzophrenic status down at Redmon, that only developers with long backgrounds in the Windows development history can make sense of, and even so we're kind of lost on how much they still care, versus Azure/XBox (ecosystem not only console)/Office.