[gaigalas]

"no matter what" is pushing it.

It was very common for Delphi programs to use stuff that required external DLLs.

[kwanbix]

Only if you wanted to include database options.

[gaigalas]

Connectivity to databases was one of Delphi's main selling points.

I think one dude spread the myth of no DLLs in the Twitter thread, lots of people repeated it, and since Delphi 6/7 is not around anymore and it's hard to check, they got away with a slight historical innacuracy.