[nhebb]

I used to be a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), and Delphi was popular among small shops making Windows desktop applications. I never was a Delphi programmer, but it's adherents loved that it produced fast code with a small footprint. It combined a RAD environment let developers easily do low level coding when needed. When VB6 was canned by Microsoft, I think Delphi had an opening that they could have taken advantage of, but the various owners (Borland, Embarcadero) have always seemed to mis-manage the product. The latest Delphi has multi-platform support, but the pricing is still too high to get wide spread traction in my opinion.

[porker]

I was always impressed by the Delphi Components ecosystem. There seemed to be a lot of useful code available at good prices - something I miss working as a web developer now.

Completely agree witht he product being mis-managed; it's still viable if they'd only make it competitive...