Delphi GUI Development

I miss Delphi, it was awesome for rapid GUI development :(

Delphi is leagues better and still supported

Ah, sweet Delphi ... To this day, it remains the best visual development environment that I have experienced over 25+ years. Powerful - yet intuitive and simple - UI, blazingly fast compilation speed, rich sets of built-in and third-party visual component libraries. I have started with Turbo Pascal, which was certainly the breakthrough at the time, and have also worked with C++ Builder and a bit with Interbase & Firebird, but spent most of my Borland ecosystem time with Delphi. Recently, loo

It's kinda sad that Microsoft pawned all Delphi devs to start .NET. It basically killed it, together with c++ builder and all other VCL frameworks.However, I'm doing a big project using Lazarus and free-pascal (the GPL version of Delphi/VCL), and it's amazing, the IDE has been getting improvements continuously for more than 15 years and now I believe it's better than Delphi, very stable, amazingly fast and also multi-platform.

There was Delphi ... https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

These days I'd suggest Lazarus. Delphi is pricing itself out of the market.

I miss Delphi/C++ Builder for professional application development... :'(

I've been a Delphi developer off and on for 20+ years (since 2, though dabbled with 1). A lot of people focus on the object pascal and it is dated as a language, though the latest is catching up. The IDE has problems now and then with code completion - it pauses a lot and sometimes just stops working, if you come from Visual Studio or XCode this is incomprehensible and annoying.Where Delphi shines is the VCL - the Visual Component Library and the third party component market. You can int

In my previous life as a cubicle drone in the late 90s I have worked with Delphi under Windows and always dreamed about it being ported/cloned/whatever on Linux. After seeing a demonstration of Kylix many years ago I almost lost any hope (slow as molasses and buggy), then one day I saw this new project called Lazarus which promised high compatibility with Delphi code and to allow building of native apps. Admittedly it was very buggy then, but eventually it matured over time and I'

Delphi was my favorite IDE in the early 2000's. I wanted to give it a whirl with its community edition to compile my old personal projects. I received a call days after from Embarcadero asking probing questions about what I'm using it for. It was extremely uncomfortable. I uninstalled Delphi and don't want to do anything with it again. It's just sad.There is an open source Delphi alternative called Lazarus, by the way: <a href="https://www.lazarus-ide.org/"