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Delphi Community Edition IDE - Free for individuals and Company's with revenue less than US $5000.

Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
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This is the same as the Delphi Pro version that I used to pay allot of money for annually. There are still a few object Pascal Propheads out there. Happy programming !!
:)


https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

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  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    Ah, that brings back memories :) That was my goto language for PC development back in the day, along with VB too of course. But now there are just so so many choices, both free or cheap. Does anybody still use Delphi?
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) wrote: »
    This is the same as the Delphi Pro version that I used to pay allot of money for annually. There are still a few object Pascal Propheads out there. Happy programming !!
    :)

    Interesting, nice to see they still do this.
    I have their Berlin 10.1 release installed, but mostly use Lazarus.
    We have one Delphi code base that we have to use XP + Old Delphi to compile, as their "backward compatible" was not great...


    They list what is new in 10.2.3 Tokyo here
    https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/whats-new-in-rad-studio-10-2-tokyo

    I see mention of CLang and LLVM, which could interest some ?
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    Peter Jakacki wrote:
    Does anybody still use Delphi?
    What do you think PropTool is written in?

    -Phil
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Peter Jakacki wrote:
    Does anybody still use Delphi?
    What do you think PropTool is written in?

    -Phil

    ..and PropBASIC was written in Delphi and ported to Lazarus. (& likely could still compile in Delphi, as it's a command line product)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    But don't get any ideas that PropTool will be open-sourced anytime soon. The editor module is proprietary.

    -Phil
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    company revenue less then $5000/year? Less then 5 developers?

    Is there some joke in there I am missing?

    So this offer is for small start-ups with just 4 developers, burning startup- money and never earn anything?


    Even MS is not that bad...


    Mike
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    No Linux support. Useless. We will stick to Lazarus.
  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    Famous software made with Delphi

    https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/famous-software-made-with-delphi/
  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    @Heater

    re:No Linux support. Useless. We will stick to Lazarus.

    Lazarus, Open Source IDE for freepascal is written in Delphi :)

  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,702
    Nice link, Bob. From the PCB software point of view, Altium and Diptrace. Who knew...
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Tubular wrote: »
    Nice link, Bob. From the PCB software point of view, Altium and Diptrace. Who knew...

    My thoughts exactly.
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    Good to know! Thanks Bob!

    Incidentally I still run an ancestor to the Delphi idea on a VM for routine activities requiring better methods then also writing it in BASIC. (MS descended from that college idea) They use their Pascal talents to make Delphi work.

    TPW 1.0 Turbo Pascal for Windows version 1.0 was in fact Delphi version 0.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Bob Lawrence,
    Lazarus, Open Source IDE for freepascal is written in Delphi
    Perhaps. I don't know for sure but Lazarus is an Open Source recreation of Delphi using FPC so I imagine one can build Lazarus using Lazarus and FPC. No Delphi required.

    Anyway, my point was that the Delphi IDE on offer cannot be used to develop Pascal applications for Linux and other systems. Great if you want to make an app that runs on Android/iOS perhaps.

    As for the "famous" software created using Delphi I have not used any of it except Skype. Which is not a good example given the difficulty it has had running on Linux.

    Pascal is great and all but there is no standard for it so it is off my radar.

  • wmosscropwmosscrop Posts: 409
    Peter Jakacki wrote: »
    Does anybody still use Delphi?
    My day job...mostly Delphi, some C/C++/C#
    IHS Markit Petra

  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    @Heater.

    re:Anyway, my point was that the Delphi IDE on offer cannot be used to develop Pascal applications for Linux and other systems. Great if you want to make an app that runs on Android/iOS

    I believe you are correct in that you cannot use the community version and for
    Delphi Linux: You need the server version " RAD Studio"
    ===========================================
    Linux Application Development
    RAD Studio allows you to develop applications for the target Linux platform. Using RAD Studio installed on Windows machine, you can create a 64-bit Linux application and deploy it to the Linux machine. Developing Linux applications is similar to creating Android apps in RAD Studio. However, for Linux, you cannot create the visual VCL and FireMonkey applications. Here is the list of apps that are available for the Linux platform:

    Console Application
    EMS Package (RAD Server)
    DataSnap
    DataSnap WebBroker
    WebBroker
    Dynamic-link Libraries
    DUnitX Project

    http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Linux_Application_Development
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I have no idea what any of that is about.

    But now I come to the next hurdle.

    I do not want to spend even one second developing software that depends on some companies proprietary tool support. Neither does any company I have worked for in a couple of decades. They learned what a trap that can be.

    The RAD Studio thing already locks one into the owner of RAD Studio and Microsoft to provide the OS to run it on.

    A double no-no.










  • pmrobertpmrobert Posts: 673
    Heater, I use Lazarus and FPC quite a bit. Lazarus does compile itself, no Delphi needed. It works rather nicely on Win and Linux and I especially like that the Lazarus/FPC community has many very knowledgeable members; ya know, that Open Source vibe! :-)

    Mike R...
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I'm somewhat familiar with Lazarus and FPC. Major chunks of our companies software are written in Pascal including a quite complex GUI tool created with Lazarus. From time to time I'm called on to do some work on that. I have had to port the non-gui things from Windows to Linux and get them running on embedded ARM boards which was fairly painless.

    It's not really my up of tea. I'm generally allergic to having to use yet another IDE. Luckily I have been able to do most of what I need to do from the command line and using the editor of my choice.

    Pascal is OK I guess. Where it falls down for me is in the lack of a standard and the dearth of libraries.

  • ErlendErlend Posts: 612
    Thank you @Bob Lawrence.

    I have now had the free Delphi since you started this thread. Used to do some Delphi an age ago, but dust had settled heavily on my OOP skills. After a month or so with the ne Delphi, most of the dust is gone. It feel really good to be back up and running, even if it is just for the fun of it.

    Thanks,
    Erlend
  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    edited 2019-01-10 01:54
    @Erlend
    Thank you @Bob Lawrence.

    I'm happy that someone tried it out. It's a great system and I got away from it too because of the pricing structure and all I was using it for is learning and a few hobby projects. the past few years I was doing lots of Android for most things but it's great to have Delphi back again. I've been using it off and on since Delphi Version 3. :) I just purchased the TMS Web Core add on and can spit out JavaScript with the Delphi code too . Lots of fun! :)
  • Buck RogersBuck Rogers Posts: 2,185
    It is nice to see this is going and going.

    But I got my start on the PC programming using Turbo Pascal.
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