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by pjmlp 4532 days ago
> Embarcadero have zero products aimed towards the individual developer

I think that is a sign of what the company has become, after being about to close so many times.

I bet it lives mostly from enterprise legacy contracts nowadays.
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tux10 4532 days ago
Yeah I can't remember the last place I saw running any Borland/Embarcadero software with the exception of some really old stuff still compiled with C++Builder6. That place was also running Visual Studio 6 for some stuff too :) Ahh the memories.
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mamcx 4532 days ago
Delphi 3 was the first program that I pay for (second was visual foxpro). Obviously, at US99 a student like me could do it. I'm moderator in the http://www.clubdelphi.com and is sad to see all the same faces all the time. New blood is hard to get, specially in latin america, when .NET is affordable/free and all the open source stuff.

Is sad that the misguided strategy that start with the Borland has pass up to Embarcadero. Where they must look for broad appeal they decide to milk instead :(. Delphi was huge (Delphi 3 - 5) and if they have more critical mass now will be a powerful force. The worst? Delphi is SOOOO good that have survived despite all the problems so far.

Still, Delphi + Python are my favorites languages of all the time...

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tux10 4532 days ago
Delphi back in the late 90s was kick ass. Nothing could touch it for desktop application development in my opinion. The people who forced themselves to use MFC and C++ on Windows were missing out big time on the ease of use of Delphi and VCL. It wasn't until C# and .NET that things got to the same ease of development as I was used to with Delphi.
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pjmlp 4532 days ago
And only now Microsoft is discussing the possibility of having a pure ahead of time native compiler for C#.
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onezeno 4532 days ago
I work in C++Builder 6 still (small company). I'm trying to get things ported to Qt.
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72deluxe 4532 days ago
Wow, that thing is ancient! I think their Kylix range used an old Qt back end, or was it wx?
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tux10 4532 days ago
What OS are you running it on out of interest? Does it still run on modern platforms?
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onezeno 4532 days ago
It runs on Windows 7.
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