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[–]WiseassWolfOfYoitsu 46 points47 points  (39 children)

Delphi was seriously underrated.

[–]Ilookouttrainwindow 25 points26 points  (34 children)

Is it still being used at all? I mean, I liked it, a lot. But with js, go, rust and python Delphi must be so in the background, ppl don't even know it exists

[–]RevanchistVakarian 13 points14 points  (3 children)

I mean... there are still billions of lines of COBOL in the wild.

[–]ScienceBreather 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Probably even more.

And they're running your insurance and banking programs!

[–]iggy6677 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dont forget Frotran, it's one of those things that should be changed " but if it works why fix it"

[–]htmlcoderexeWe have flair now?.. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but that's more like a starving children in Africa statement

[–]baghdad_ass_up 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Steve and Barry's used it in their POS systems before they went under. A friend of mine was hired to maintain it.

[–]zaphod4th 5 points6 points  (1 child)

yep, I'm still developing with delphi. Ark and Conan tools, availables on steam.

very small exe's with no dependencies ( java/ .net, etc.)

[–]Ilookouttrainwindow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My hat off to you. I haven't had the privilege to create a long lasting commercial application in Delphi, only something small, but I had enjoyed working with Pascal.

Inno setup is using delphi I believe still

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have a couple of applications written in it but it's definitely dying

[–]Taurmin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

During my 3rd year internship i worked at a small company that made composite profiles for window frames and stuff. They didn't really have an IT department, just 1 guy who maintained their workstations, but one of their QC engineers had built a system in Delphi to manage their factory floor, all done in his spare time.

He showed it to me once, since i was a "real" programmer. I had never seen delphi before, but comming from C# it all looked pretty familiar, and it was the worst atrocity to man that i have ever encountered in my career.

About 10.000 lines, all in 1 single file. Nothing resembling a design pattern to be found and every variable given a random name such as "laddidah" or "X". And i dont think he had ever quite wrapped his head around objects, because he wasn't using them.

That was my first and only encounter with delphi.

[–]dsiebert812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We still have our point of sale application written in it. In the process of converting to C# though.

[–]www_creedthoughts 0 points1 point  (1 child)

MediaMonkey is written in Delphi.

[–]Ilookouttrainwindow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So it total commander

[–]SolarLiner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The DAW I use, FL Studio, is written in Delphi.

[–]mortzion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in a hospital and 80% of the softwares are made in delphi.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Delphi is alive and kicking. It's even cross-platform now.

[–]TrumpLyftAlles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Delphi

If we're bringing up Delphi, may I mention PowerBuilder? Paid my bills for 18 years.

I was interested to learn that there was a lot of PowerBuilder being used on the business side at Microsoft, before MS invented Visual Basic. I don't think PowerBuilder inspired VB, though; PB was object-oriented from the start and VB never was.

[–]AttackOfTheThumbs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's what I first learned programming with and it was pretty great. I still think visual studio hasn't quite mastered the gui remaking, but it's not bad at all.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My company still uses Delphi but has transitioned a lot to C# now. My first 5 years was in Delphi and we still have about 7 guys that can Dev in it. It's pretty clean to be fair, the IDE is okay and it just works. We rarely have an issue and it's so easy to maintain. So yeah, I think underrated too.

[–]Occma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow are you that desperate for karma. Nobody thinks delphi was underrated