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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by pjmlp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:42AM (#13652734)
> I have no idea why that didn't take off, but it was an excellent environment really.

- It was a wrapper around Qt

- Had some dependencies on Wine

- The set of available controls was small

- It was closed source

- They expected GNU/Linux developers to be willing to pay for it

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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks by dfox on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:44PM (#13655626)
To clarify: dependency on wine means that the IDE was essentially windows application (stripped-down delphi) running on top of wine . Wine was not required for deployment of applications.
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