By bloid
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Published: Apr 04 2008 / 19:45
This question has been asked repeatedly over the years. And yet, the phenomenon continues.
For eight years, Delphi was vastly superior to Visual Studio, particularly Visual Basic. Then Microsoft got serious about creating a strong development environment and toolset. Borland struggled to keep up with the pace of changes Microsoft was making, in particular with .NET. Delphi 2007, released two years after .NET 2.0, was not capable of doing .NET 2.0 development.
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dzonelurker replied ago:
There are only 3 reasons for the decline of Delphi: Borland, Inprise and CodeGEAR.
ararog replied ago:
Why use Delphi if we have Chrome as Object Pascal for .NET platform?
ararog replied ago:
If the intention is .NET development, then Chrome can solve the problem.
mezmo replied ago:
Many reasons, most are marketing but just look at all the crap they're complaining about with Java, verbose, statically typed, yadda yadda yadda. All also true for Delphi. The only thing you couldn't hang on Delphi is the closures, those you should be able to do, since they already have a function type. Verbosity was a major point of contention between the Delphi advocates vs Powerbuilder advocates. It all just comes around again. I've always said that Java really was the love child of C/C++ and Delphi.
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