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Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) by magicalhippo on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:58PM (#37212241)
We have a fair bit of code in production that was written over 20 years ago. It just works. It has gone through strings switching from 8-bit to Unicode (16-bit) with hardly any modification.

We upgrade every year or so, and in almost all cases it's smooth sailing.

Delphi has been quite good so far when it comes to long term maintenance.

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Re:I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it (2019) by codr7 on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:09PM (#37213205)
Not my experience.

First they deprecated the bundled DB bindings, after hyping them to hell and back; then the bundled report generator. We had more than a million lines of code depending heavily on those.

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