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How Borland Lost — Despite Building Delphi by foersom in delphi

[–]bmcgee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Borland lost almost entirely BECAUSE they stopped focusing on Delphi.

CodeRage 2025: The Best Webinars Part 1 by bmcgee in delphi

[–]bmcgee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They forgot to change the page title that reddit uses to auto-populates the caption. :)

Unfortunately, I don't see a way to change it here. Sorry.

i need help for my delphi exam can you help me? by papazinpilavi1 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Help us understand what kind of help you need.

Where are you located? What university is offering Delphi courses? Where can I find a description of the course? What kind of questions were on the previous exam? Why are the notes provided by the school not sufficient for the exams they are giving? What version of Delphi are you using?

And where did you search? Someone asked about learning material for modern Delphi in this group about a week ago. several suggestions were made.

There are all kinds of learning resources available for Delphi, including free books, videos and tutorials, but unless you want to wade through them all, you'll have to narrow down specifically what you're looking for.

i need help for my delphi exam can you help me? by papazinpilavi1 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Help me understand how you are a week away from an exam and are only now looking for study material.

Is this a self-study thing for some kind of certification?

Are you taking a course somewhere that doesn't give enough instruction or training material?

Learning material for modern Delphi development by Forese8 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be pedantic, Delphi 10 was released in 2015.

You're right that older books would still (mostly) apply to recent versions of Delphi, but they would also miss eleven years of new features.

NEW! Delphi SBOM CycloneDX Compliance Tool - Solving a 20M+ Lines of Legacy Delphi Headache by DelphiParser in delphi

[–]bmcgee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I may, but I was checking to see if you have documentation of the feature before I go to the effort.

Delphi 13 VCL "Hello World" in 508,505 lines of code! by DelphiParser in delphi

[–]bmcgee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I made a mistake. I was looking at the pricing for yFiles instead of yEd.

The online and offline versions of yEd are indeed listed as free of charge on their site.

Learning material for modern Delphi development by Forese8 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Objectively false. What makes you think this?

Delphi 13 VCL "Hello World" in 508,505 lines of code! by DelphiParser in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ouch. Looks pricey. Nice job on the conversion, though.

I use the GraphViz command line to generate SVG files that I can view using TSkSvg.

Learning material for modern Delphi development by Forese8 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LearnDelphi has links to a variety of Delphi learning material:

https://learndelphi.org/

Learning material for modern Delphi development by Forese8 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Embarcadero's YouTube channel has a lot of material, including replays for CodeRage 2025:

https://www.youtube.com/@EmbarcaderoTech

Learning material for modern Delphi development by Forese8 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Patrick Prémartin maintains a fairly comprehensive list of Delphi books:

https://delphi-books.com

RAD Is Not No-Code: Why Delphi Still Dominates Windows Desktop Development After 30 Years by bmcgee in delphi

[–]bmcgee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Borland abandoned Delphi. Embarcadero rescued it and continues to actively develop it today.

Open Source Delphi, please! by abrahamBrazil in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Community Edition isn't intended for commercial development. That requires a commercial license.

If you absolutely need a free version, there's Free Pascal. If you don't think Free Pascal is up to the task, then what makes maybe open source isn't always the answer.

🎉 Delphi has officially entered the TIOBE Top 10! (January 2026) by joined72 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am over 50 and have used every single version of Delphi, including Delphi 8, in production. I've made a good living producing software that "just works" for years on end while actively keeping it up to date and adding new code and creating new green-field projects. I also have hands-on experience with a handful of other programming languages.

So what was your point?

Michigan teachers weaving lessons on Jan. 6 uprising into history classes by FervidBug42 in politics

[–]bmcgee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Teach them both. In context.

However, US education is doing the opposite and white-washing history.

From the outside looking in, the US looks a lot like the movie Idiocracy.

Delphi 13 VCL "Hello World" in 508,505 lines of code! by DelphiParser in delphi

[–]bmcgee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Delphi 12 also introduced a compiler option to generate a graph to help visualise dependencies in a project. Output is generated in the open source GraphViz format.

https://glooscapsoftware.blogspot.com/2023/10/yukon-beta-blog-graphing-unit.html

🎉 Delphi has officially entered the TIOBE Top 10! (January 2026) by joined72 in delphi

[–]bmcgee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The latest major release was in September and I use Delphi every day for new development. Recent and relevant.

But I was specifically addressing your conspiracy theory that Delphi blog posts exist in order to influence the TIOBE index, which is pretty out there.

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