This is the really annoying part.
replyDelphi's predecessor if not Delphi itself was $99 (Turbo Pascal).
I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. The minute they did away with Turbo Pascal I feel like they basically marked themselves as a legacy only company, I don't know anyone who is using them for net new projects that wasn't already all in on Delphi, you don't see new startups using them anyway. Had they kept Turbo Pascal, I do wonder how much more prevalent they could have been compared to now. It's still a solid way to make a native GUI.
reply> I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today.
replyWhat's stopping you? You can open your wallet to lazarus today, if you wanted.
I've used Lazarus, very dated and doesn't look and feel quite as polished, there's been a lot of modern IDE advancements and none of them have made their way to Lazarus.
reply> I had to give them my email just to download it
replyBut why? Just throw some garbage - a temporary email - at them if they so insist.
I could have sure, but it was for an account, and I can always unsubscribe or ignore them, doesn't phase me, I have like 20 gmail accounts that are old enough to vote, drink, and who knows what else
replyHaha, okay, fair enough.
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