Comments on: Rest In Peace Delphi

By: rocarobin

rocarobin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:53:30 +0000

lol, dJamez is right, Delphi Vampire Rocks.

By: dJamez

dJamez — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:56:27 +0000

For those out there who still doubt the power and popularity of Delphi, take a look at the Delphi product showcase: http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-in-action/application-showcase

By: olive

olive — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:08:50 +0000

Delphi is a great RAD tool! .NET and its 70 Mb runtime DLL is not the best choice to deliver a software to a company.
I hate applications with runtime packages! Runtime packages can be updated at any time by Microsoft Windows during auto update process and you can not seriously tell that it’s not a problem!

By: omair iqbal

omair iqbal — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:14 +0000

i still use delphi cuz .net is slowwwww
delphi provides the ease of vb(classic) and power of c++

By: cam

cam — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:08:31 +0000

foo…is same like a fool

By: Hans-Eric Grönlund

Hans-Eric Grönlund — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:33:12 +0000

@Bryce K. Nielsen @Bryce Agree. Of all the environments I've had the pleasure to develop real world applications in (there are quite a few) Delphi has had the best time-to-customer ratio for me. Of course, it has its issues but then again so does all of them.

By: HadToChange

HadToChange — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:25:11 +0000

As a student I used Delphi student edition and I loved it. When I graduated I asked Borland if I could upgrade to the professional (they had no other intermediate edition at that time) and they said no. Microsoft said I qualified for Visual Studio Standard so there you go. Love both products but I don’t use Delphi anymore.

By: Bryce K. Nielsen

Bryce K. Nielsen — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:56:02 +0000

@Hans-Eric Grönlund
Jealous! I wish I was back in Delphi! All of my clients are using C#, so I pretty much have to go with the flow. I was tempted though the other day to upgrade to D2009 for various side projects. I wrote all the SysOnyx tools in Delphi (http://www.sysonyx.com) and starting to wonder if I should just upgrade everything about them.

IMHO, Delphi is the *best* language for writing Windows GUI apps, hands down. C# and the Visual Studio IDE are nice, especially for non-visual code and interoperability, but a good WinForms app you cannot find in .Net…

-BKN

By: Hans-Eric Grönlund

Hans-Eric Grönlund — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:57:04 +0000

Senad, I don't think .Net is going away anytime soon but I agree that we are better off not to forget the native platforms as a pragmatic alternative for certain applications. I try to take a neutral stand in the religious wars of what platforms and languages are the best ones. They all have their natural uses and we do good not to ignore any of them for other than pragmatic reasons. As a side note, I'm actually back using Delphi again (blogged about it here: Welcome Back Delphi! and most recently: CodeGear, Please Fix the Anonymous Method Assymetry) and I love it!

By: senad_of_EE

senad_of_EE — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:56:48 +0000

Net technology is Microsoft dependent and we all know how that turns out in the end.They are pushing enormous amounts of money to propagate the stuff but I think it is doomed allready.Net applications are history.Do you remember nice stories about network computers and similar crap.Net based applications?Network office? Network storage?Where are they now?Meanwhile they are trying to promote the Sliverlight in the same way to muscle out Adobe Flash.
32 bit applications will be in use for many many years to come.
Just look at the way users rejected Vista and stayed with XP.Not even Windows 7 will replace XP in a long time.Companies are not idiots with money to waste on fancy looking applications.
My advice is to stay with Delphi.

Yes .NET will die off. That is why Visual Studio is now losing the .NET name (next version). Too many companies adopted the .NET technology without understanding when it should be used.
.NET just prepare for burial.