Is delphi dying?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069416

by sudeep1 • 13 years ago

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Nowadays in the Internet in the place like hackernews, i really can not find people talking about delphi.

Is it active or it is dead already? Is it good to start learning delphi now?

dli282• 13 years ago

Still very much active.

grkovalev• 13 years ago

but i don't see any reasons for learning it.

sudeep1• 13 years ago

I do not see it active anywhere.

mathattack2• 13 years ago

I'm not intending to be snide or rude, but it's been so many years since I've heard it mentioned that I assumed it was dead.

271828182842• 13 years ago

This was my reaction too. Something like "Holy crap! I forgot about that language"

mathattack2• 13 years ago

At least we're not making this comment about a person!

taprun• 13 years ago

It looks like demand for Delphi programmers is down by roughly 2/3 since 2006 (relative to other languages). Source: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=delphi&l=

271828182842• 13 years ago

I think it is objectively hard to measure this sorta stuff, but considering there are 2,139 jobs listed using an aggregating job search engine for delphi. Compare to most of the other language and you find many many many more jobs. so by that measure, yes. By another measure, maybe not.

michaeldhopkins• 13 years ago

I know a couple of Delphi developers; good developers. I don't think that they would recommend learning the language today because the number of legacy systems still in Delphi are declining, few new projects use Delphi, and while there are web frameworks, app development frameworks, etc., they really only exist to help existing developers and are not remarkable enough to be worth learning the language.

runjake• 13 years ago

  > Is it good to start learning delphi now?

That depends.

Do you want to build new software? If yes, look elsewhere.

Do you want to maintain or port old small business software and possibly make large sums of money? Then it might be worth learning Delphi.

Otherwise, Delphi is dead. But I do know of at least one programmer (albeit with excellent personal marketing skills) who learned RPG and became a multi-millionaire taking RPG contracts long after it was considered "obsolete".

dded• 13 years ago

I know a Cobol programmer who did (is doing) something similar.

pentupho• 13 years ago

Dead or not, it's still a good choice if you want to deliver native windows gui apps.

suzuki• 12 years ago

I suggest Lazarus to you. It is a successor of Delphi in a sense. It is rather active.

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org

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