Delphi was brilliant at the time it was created in 1995. Niklaus Wirth had created Pascal in the late 60s. When the PC revolution happened in the late 70s/early 80s, Turbo Pascal had become the first IDE (of sorts) and top-selling development tool. Apple famously adopted Pascal in the 1980s for its new Mac platform and extended it, creating Object Pascal. Borland was inspired by Apple's Object Pascal and created its own Object Pascal they called Delphi.
For a while in the 90s there was intense competition between Delphi and Visual Basic as to which was easier to develop modern GUI applications and had more power. I'd say Delphi was the better alternative, but that's another story.
The thing is, Delphi never stopped. You can build desktop apps, web apps, mobile apps, APIs - all kinds of stuff. But to programmers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s? Pascal was a very familiar language.
I swear in 2030 the pop. ranking top 10 will look like: 1. Python, Go, Delphi, C++, C, C#, Java, SQL, R, 10. typescript. Personally i don't like to see such ranking but it's not up to me, could be way worse!
Delphi was brilliant at the time it was created in 1995. Niklaus Wirth had created Pascal in the late 60s. When the PC revolution happened in the late 70s/early 80s, Turbo Pascal had become the first IDE (of sorts) and top-selling development tool. Apple famously adopted Pascal in the 1980s for its new Mac platform and extended it, creating Object Pascal. Borland was inspired by Apple's Object Pascal and created its own Object Pascal they called Delphi.
For a while in the 90s there was intense competition between Delphi and Visual Basic as to which was easier to develop modern GUI applications and had more power. I'd say Delphi was the better alternative, but that's another story.
The thing is, Delphi never stopped. You can build desktop apps, web apps, mobile apps, APIs - all kinds of stuff. But to programmers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s? Pascal was a very familiar language.
I swear in 2030 the pop. ranking top 10 will look like: 1. Python, Go, Delphi, C++, C, C#, Java, SQL, R, 10. typescript. Personally i don't like to see such ranking but it's not up to me, could be way worse!