22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks

Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by nottorp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:57AM (#13651991)

I can't help but notice that all the article talks about is Delphi versions up to 6... which is where it started to go downhill.

Are recent versions of Delphi actually usable? I haven't tried anything beyond 8, and from my (admittedly rusty) experience the best version was 6.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by hsitz on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:28PM (#13653663)

Back in early 2000's when I used it a lot, the word was that the even numbered versions of Delphi (2, 4, 6) were all poor efforts, and the odd numbered (3,5,7) were all good. I used 6 and didn't think it was bad, but 7 was better. Many Delphi users had remained at version 5.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by kol on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:30PM (#13654179)

6 and 7 were both great.

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by TimJYoung on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:57PM (#13653907)

The latest Seattle and Berlin versions have pretty solid IDEs that start up very quickly and the runtime/VCL has seen a lot of improvements/fixes over the last few years.

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