[OldSchool]

The way I saw it in 1995 was that Delphi was the fastest way to create a full windows desktop app and do it as single compiled-to-native-code executable at that critical time it was released. The slightly-later 32-bit version was powerful and gave your app some staying power; a Delphi-generated executable file would likely still run today.

[smackeyacky]

Sadly they still do, although finding somebody to work on them is hard and while the executables work, the dev environment does not. Delphi was a pretty nasty dead end