Delphi was great! First programming language I used at my first job.
I have some hobby projects that are still used to this day written in Delphi. I haven't really updated them too much. Too much work to rewrite it. Some critical faults that have emerged overtime. Not really delphi faults. I used Paradox for the database. Which was terrible choice even back then. I recently had it complain about the length of the path to the table.
In another app, for some odd reason I can't remember, I developed a custom a plugin system, using dll com plugins.
As time went on, microsoft limited access to the windows registry. So now I have user running into problems with the install. The program installs, just can't find the plugins because it doesn't have registry access. At least that's my limited understanding of what is going on.
And I think you can't write Delphi apps for the windows app store.
But Delphi was very strait forward and simple to write apps.
Fantastic! And comparing it to Python, much easier to find bugs.
I have some hobby projects that are still used to this day written in Delphi. I haven't really updated them too much. Too much work to rewrite it. Some critical faults that have emerged overtime. Not really delphi faults. I used Paradox for the database. Which was terrible choice even back then. I recently had it complain about the length of the path to the table.
In another app, for some odd reason I can't remember, I developed a custom a plugin system, using dll com plugins.
As time went on, microsoft limited access to the windows registry. So now I have user running into problems with the install. The program installs, just can't find the plugins because it doesn't have registry access. At least that's my limited understanding of what is going on.
And I think you can't write Delphi apps for the windows app store. But Delphi was very strait forward and simple to write apps. Fantastic! And comparing it to Python, much easier to find bugs.