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Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed by minsight on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:04AM (#32509745)
Embarcadero was acquired by the same jackasses that bought out a company where I used to work. The new owners had a bunch of attitude and kept crowing on about "their playbook". It turned out that the primary technology that they were buying us for was the one part of our product that we actually licensed from another vendor. I believe they spent millions and didn't get what they were looking for.

They had an offshore team that theoretically could work with the codebase, but I don't remember seeing anything of consequence added to the product in the past 7-8 years. If I ever found that they bought out a company that used technology that I depended upon, I'd migrate to a new solution.

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Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed by last_responder on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:33AM (#32510205)
So in your opinion, this should be avoided? Looking to try something new ( old ) and this got me excited but your comment has soured it a bit for me.
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Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed by badsectoracula on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:46AM (#32510424)
Yeah, if you want something like Delphi, try Lazarus instead which -for the most part- is basically an open source and cross platform Delphi clone[0], so you're not bound to the whims of a corporation that is often seen as where old proprietary software goes to die.

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

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Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed by gduke on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:15PM (#32632595)
Since Embarcacero was acquired in 2015 and until now, there has happened quite a bit to the RAD Studio IDE and underlying tech. I don't know about your situation, but, Delphi and C++Builder has not been left to rot.
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Re:Delphi still exists and is actively developed by minsight on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:24PM (#32514430)
I wouldn't expect much in terms of value or growth from a platform owned by those clowns.
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