Is Delphi/Freepascal still a thing?

No, it's practically dead.

Downloaded Delphi the other day, and I guess I had a lapse of reason, or accidentally used auto-fill, and used my real phone number when registering. Now they won't stop calling my house.

I work at a fast-food restaurant. I'm a hobbyist, not a developer, I have no money for you. Please stop.

>>59095026
But they still publish new releases somehow, don't they?
And it kinda implies somebody buys it.
E.g. Embarcadero Delphi 10.1 Berlin was released last year.

As for Lazarus, the latest stable version was released just 3 months ago.

>>59095069
So what, they still publish new releases of COBOL and Perl. There's a lot of legacy code out there in need of support and a lot of code monkeys unable to learn a new technology.

>>59095052
Looks nice! Is it more convenient than QT Creator/Glade?

>>59095087
>a new technology
What do you mean by this?

It used to be good. Nowadays it's pretty shit compared to everything else even though everything else is a similar pile of shit.

Even freepascal/Lazarus is terrible.

>>59095123
.NET/C# or Java.

>>59095026
>practically dead.
lmao

delphi/object pascal was more popular last year than go/rust/other meme languages.

>>59095131
Could you elaborate? What makes it terrible? A small community to ask should you have any problems or what? Number of llibs available?

>>59095155
Can you substantiate? I haven't seen a single new project in Delphi/Freepascal for years.

Free Pascal is still quite cool. Finding bindings for libs can be a problem, but once that's out of the way, I think it's very enjoyable to develop with.

Can't say anything about Delphi, last used it 12 years ago.

>>59095155
>this is what delphags actually believe

>>59095155
Maybe in your school, bud.

>>59095100
>pls buy it
lel
is Jeb Bush their CEO?

Delphi is extremly popular in Russia and other ex-ussr.

>>59095249
How do you know that? It used to be, but it's been a while.

>>59095197
>>59095205
>le greentext argument
>le school argument, probably from a 18-22 year old trash
here is some more salt on your wounds, mad code artisans.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

>>59095052
What do you write with it?

>>59095411
Isn't there a one-window mode?

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>>59095412
>TIOBE

>>59095412
>http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
They don't elaborate on WHAT those Delphi jobs are. My take is that those are legacy code maintenance jobs. Not really aspirational.

>>59095470
What's wrong with TIOBE?

>>59095470
>ranking based on github and stackoverflow
lmao

>>59095446
Lazarus has this mode (but its difficult to turn on, you need to compile addon from sorces and install it to IDE)

Any more opinions?

> Good support for dozens of platforms
> Truly native look and feel without bullshit
> Killer RAD stuff (Lazarus)
> Stable as fuck (It's literally one of most stable languages out there... no joke)
> No "install SDK/Runtime/shit".
> Open source
> Small, but comfy community.

the (((new better advanced languages))) doesn't have even the basic tooling (NO... VSCode plugin tier isn't anything near of what i'm talking about)

It's good tier stuff m8
Just study it.

>>59095163
Its more of a case of the world has moved on and delphi hasn't kept up the pace.

Also lazarus sucks because it's slow and suffers from the gimp problem of using too many windows.

>>59096772
Could it be that it's just that you have a slow PC?

As for windows, it has a one-window mode, just like gimp. Educate yourself.

>>59095470
>juding the popularity of languages by github

im still rocking on lazarus, here and there
and object pascal is still getting features up to this day

>>59095220
its a keygen

>>59096874
Nope, a simple hello world with a button easily compiled within a second with delphi on my PIII 600mhz back in the day but my 3ghz i7 seems to be struggling to compile it within 20 with lazarus.

See >>59095807. It's so convoluted it might as well not be there.

Our company's employee management system is written in Delphi.

>>59095141
>Perl code monkeys
>not C# code monkeys

>>59100103
>Perl code monkeys
Doesn't compute

>>59095009
I wish I had time to still use Lazarus, but forgot most things of Object Pascal.

>>59095112
Delphi 2 sure was and I don't think they regressed on that....

>>59100115
That's where you are wrong. I worked in a sector that's full of Perl code monkeys.

>>59100151
Ouch, that must have been terrible.

>>59100123
As I see it, Delphi is a generic OOP language, so your skills should apply anyways.

>>59100151
>pearl code monkeys
...You should made a documentary about this place.