I wonder if somebody still uses it somewhere, if it's any good for a beginner today. Your opinions?
Is Delphi/Freepascal still a thing?
Oliver Thomas
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Bentley Ward
No, it's practically dead.
Elijah Johnson
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Jason Stewart
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.
Evan Cox
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.
Jason Campbell
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James Thomas
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.
Ryan Gomez
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Evan Bennett
Looks nice! Is it more convenient than QT Creator/Glade?
Levi White
>a new technology
What do you mean by this?
Landon Morris
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Ethan Jones
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.
Carter Thompson
.NET/C# or Java.
Alexander Johnson
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Grayson Allen
>practically dead.
lmao
delphi/object pascal was more popular last year than go/rust/other meme languages.
Parker Hall
Could you elaborate? What makes it terrible? A small community to ask should you have any problems or what? Number of llibs available?
Jaxon Green
Can you substantiate? I haven't seen a single new project in Delphi/Freepascal for years.
Lucas Mitchell
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.
Angel Foster
>this is what delphags actually believe
Landon Sanders
Maybe in your school, bud.
Jace Young
>pls buy it
lel
is Jeb Bush their CEO?
Ethan Johnson
Delphi is extremly popular in Russia and other ex-ussr.
Wyatt Smith
How do you know that? It used to be, but it's been a while.
Joshua Carter
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Jason Harris
>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.
Cameron Howard
What do you write with it?
Jordan Howard
Isn't there a one-window mode?
William Williams
>TIOBE
Dylan Clark
>tiobe.com
They don't elaborate on WHAT those Delphi jobs are. My take is that those are legacy code maintenance jobs. Not really aspirational.
Jackson Reed
What's wrong with TIOBE?
Jacob Cook
>ranking based on github and stackoverflow
lmao
Colton Brown
Lazarus has this mode (but its difficult to turn on, you need to compile addon from sorces and install it to IDE)
Owen Wilson
Any more opinions?
Lucas Myers
> 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.
Brody Nelson
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.
Luke Thomas
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.
Daniel Wilson
>juding the popularity of languages by github
Alexander Bailey
im still rocking on lazarus, here and there
and object pascal is still getting features up to this day
Aaron Morgan
its a keygen
Lincoln Nelson
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 . It's so convoluted it might as well not be there.
Logan Johnson
Our company's employee management system is written in Delphi.
Leo Scott
>Perl code monkeys
>not C# code monkeys
Logan Sullivan
>Perl code monkeys
Doesn't compute
Ryder Taylor
I wish I had time to still use Lazarus, but forgot most things of Object Pascal.
Delphi 2 sure was and I don't think they regressed on that....
Christian Watson
That's where you are wrong. I worked in a sector that's full of Perl code monkeys.
Brody Cox
Ouch, that must have been terrible.
Juan Harris
As I see it, Delphi is a generic OOP language, so your skills should apply anyways.
Hudson Price
>pearl code monkeys
...You should made a documentary about this place.