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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by theamk on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:52AM (#22118548)
I fondly remember using Delphi to create native Windows GUIs. It was really great for this.

The reason I stopped using it was that I discovered that there are many more program types than Windows GUIs - and there, C++ (or sometimes C) is really the best. High performance lock-free lists? Support for obscure network protocols? Containers with custom allocators? Delphi does not really work there.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by mamcx on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:14AM (#22118787)
That is an effect of ecosystem, not language.

Is interesting to note that you can see "High performance lock-free lists" in many langs, but near none have good GUIs builders. Good GUIs builders are harder, and your "High performance lock-free lists" is easy, also you can use C/C++ libraries in Delphi too...

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by cies on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:54AM (#22125710)
And with Delphi the language and ecosystem are almost synonymous. Sadly. Is the compiler was free from the start and the IDE would cost money, they might have had a much stronger offering.
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