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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by robocat on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:38AM (#19169623)
We use Delphi, because we are productive with it, but it is seriously sorry.

Yes, you can develop 64 bit apps with it, but the IDE is still a 32 bit app, which causes problems with large projects.

The Indy components (e.g. http) are unsafe and shitty.

Personally I don't think there is much to recommend.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by gduke on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:18AM (#19171050)
You don't necessarily have to use Indy. There are several open source and commercial network stacks available for Delphi that works across supported platforms.

Also, since Delphi XE8, components for proper HTTP handling, that taps into the host platforms native implementation, has been available. They work really great.

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Re:24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today by cannam on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:48AM (#19170419)
> the IDE is still a 32 bit app

So is Visual Studio, for what it's worth.

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