Is delphi dying?

Posted by sudeep1 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:07AM
from the self-post dept.

Nowadays in the Internet in the place like hackernews, i really can not find people talking about delphi.

Is it active or it is dead already? Is it good to start learning delphi now?

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Re:Is delphi dying? by mathattack on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:15AM (#7069770)

I'm not intending to be snide or rude, but it's been so many years since I've heard it mentioned that I assumed it was dead.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by 27182818284 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:41PM (#7070972)

This was my reaction too. Something like "Holy crap! I forgot about that language"

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Re:Is delphi dying? by mathattack on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:24PM (#7071368)

At least we're not making this comment about a person!

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Re:Is delphi dying? by runjake on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:31PM (#7072326)

  > Is it good to start learning delphi now?

That depends.

Do you want to build new software? If yes, look elsewhere.

Do you want to maintain or port old small business software and possibly make large sums of money? Then it might be worth learning Delphi.

Otherwise, Delphi is dead. But I do know of at least one programmer (albeit with excellent personal marketing skills) who learned RPG and became a multi-millionaire taking RPG contracts long after it was considered "obsolete".

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Re:Is delphi dying? by dded on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:25PM (#7074096)

I know a Cobol programmer who did (is doing) something similar.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by taprun on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:27AM (#7069856)

It looks like demand for Delphi programmers is down by roughly 2/3 since 2006 (relative to other languages). Source: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=delphi&l=

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Re:Is delphi dying? by michaeldhopkins on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:54PM (#7072080)

I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are declining, few new projects use Delphi, and while there are web frameworks, app development frameworks, etc., they really only exist to help existing developers and are not remarkable enough to be worth learning the language.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by 27182818284 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @12:52PM (#7071094)

I think it is objectively hard to measure this sorta stuff, but considering there are 2,139 jobs listed using an aggregating job search engine for delphi. Compare to most of the other language and you find many many many more jobs. so by that measure, yes. By another measure, maybe not.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by pentupho on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:24AM (#7080331)

Dead or not, it's still a good choice if you want to deliver native windows gui apps.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by suzuki on Monday January 27, 2014 @09:35AM (#7130426)

I suggest Lazarus to you. It is a successor of Delphi in a sense. It is rather active.

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org

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Re:Is delphi dying? by dli282 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:16AM (#7069461)

Still very much active.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by sudeep1 on Thursday January 16, 2014 @01:50PM (#7071584)

I do not see it active anywhere.

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Re:Is delphi dying? by grkovalev on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:27AM (#7069532)

but i don't see any reasons for learning it.

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