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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by R0b0t1 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @02:43PM (#30315648)
Delphi is still wildly popular especially outside of the English speaking software development world. It's a bit strange to see. The English speaking developers outside of the US are likely to be following US industry trends, but Delphi and other languages are quite entrenched in industrial programming and custom ORM designs in South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Something really nice about Delphi is it compiles quickly. Very underrated. Modern Delphi has rough feature parity with Java with anonymous classes and functions, making it quite usable. Unfortunately those feature have not made it into FreePascal dialects yet.

The guy who created Delphi went on to make C#. We might see MS's open source push give us something Delphi like yet.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by branko_d on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:50PM (#30317166)
Anders Hejlsberg is a world treasure as far as I'm concerned.

After basically single-handedly creating Torbo Pascal, he was the architect of Delphi, C# and now TypeScript. I don't think that anybody touched the lives of so many programmers quite like he did.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by pjmlp on Sunday February 13, 2022 @07:28AM (#30321266)
I owe to him, having learned that systems programming doesn't need to be C like unsafe, thanks to having learned my ways into it via TP 3.0 - 6.0, before meeting C.

Having done Spectrum coding before also helped.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by pjmlp on Saturday February 12, 2022 @03:09PM (#30315899)
Indeed, here in Germany there is at least one Delphi conference, and additionally it tends to share some slots in .NET conferences.
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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by chadcmulligan on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:19PM (#30317039)
Where would you find Delphi jobs in Europe? I'm in australia but still do delphi.
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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by hestefisk on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:44PM (#30318626)
Generally firms that work with industrial automation where speed and efficiency are key elements. In wind turbine manufacturing, for instance, I know a lot of firms still use Delphi.
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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by chadcmulligan on Sunday February 13, 2022 @12:11AM (#30319430)
Oh ok, same here then, I'm working in manufacturing, also in medical systems here, there are a few I know of.
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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by pjmlp on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:14AM (#30320162)
Medical systems here as well, laboratory automation, for example https://www.lab-services.nl
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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by brnt on Saturday February 12, 2022 @05:13PM (#30317021)
How "far" behind it Freepascal you think?

I tried to get into it a few years back and in terms of language features it felt like things had stagnated for a decade or more.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by R0b0t1 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:10PM (#30318075)
It's not that far behind but there is going to be a time investment for whoever undertakes it. The parser is very modular but documentation is sparse. It follows the EBNF notation quite closely, but adding these anonymous structures will require adding intermediate formats to track them and pass them to the machine code generator.

It's pretty heavy work, but not insanely complicated. One of the gating issues seems the existing devs didn't seem to care about these features when I was looking to add them. That may be a problem for someone who does not wish to invest lots of time understanding the codebase.

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Re:Delphi Timewarp – 1995 and Delphi’s Mythical Origins by mobilio on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:36PM (#30316752)
In Eastern Europe Delphi was very popular.
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