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by senadir 111 days ago
Do you think that writing Delphi, a language no one is buying, makes you hardworking?
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pjmlp 111 days ago
If no one would be buying Delphi, Embarcadero would not be in business, yet here they are.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

One of the related conferences just took place last October,

https://entwickler-konferenz.de/en/

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Ygg2 111 days ago
There is a difference between being in business and thriving.

I've been in a few companies that managed to eke out a living by maintaining a piece of software no one in their sane mind would still maintain. Sometimes a government gig, sometimes the private sector.

Shoutout to my boys that in 2018 maintained a Java 1.3 app. Still going strong to this day (it was migrated to Java 8 last time I checked).

EDIT: ~21 Delphi apps in world! Woohoo! Delphi number #525

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pjmlp 111 days ago
That is a poimt of view, besides it was you that decided to pick on Delphi, it could have been C, VB, the random technology that falls under whatever.

> Most of those Electron folks would not manage to even write C applications on an Amiga, use Delphi, VB, or whatever.

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Ygg2 111 days ago
Sure, either of them qualifies. I was just pointing out that Delphi (and C, and VB) aren't really widely used in GUI toolkits anymore.

It's not just the difficulty. It's the lack of learning materials, widgets, examples, and whatnot. Debuggers also suck, at least they did when I used Delphi.

What also helps is having a huge behemoth of a corporation improving your GUI toolkit for free (Chromium, although you pay in ad exposure).

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