hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Still no Linux support...
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DelphiForge: Transparent Cross-Platform IDE
Developers are frustrated by Delphi’s lack of Linux support, messy libraries, and intrusive spyware that triggers legal threats. DelphiForge delivers a clean, open‑source Delphi‑compatible IDE with native Linux support, streamlined libraries, and zero spyware, enabling seamless cross‑platform development without legal risk.
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complaint frequency
13.5
growth rate
15
competition density
9.5
monetization potential
10.17
technical feasibility
7.5
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9
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Raw Complaint Loghn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Pascal was comparably clean, but Delphi library is quite messy. SysUtils is about local time, exceptions, floating number formatting and OS error handling. SyncObjs are about synchronization which is very good. But TThread resides in Classes, together with streams, serialization, base components, lists and other containers. Rapidly created form controllers are implementation of god object anti-pattern.> And calling win API was a horrorThis is not easy matter in any language. And I called Android API from Delphi. Still quite an adventure
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
And they have spywares in their IDE and if they even think for a second that you're using the trial software in an unauthorized way, their lawyers will threaten you.Like, they won't even try to discuss with their sales team, or try to clarify the situation. Despicable company if you ask me.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Lazarus does not support BPL. Android and iOS support are under question. Free Pascal devs for many years did not look into Ada, and looked into C++ more, and that made Free Pascal ugly. Delphi did not look into Ada either, but they looked into .NET instead, and that made Delphi not as great, but better than Free Pascal. Anything is better than C++. Delphi delivered controlled types, that was IIRC for many years in top 10 feature requests on Quality Central, until QC was purged. They call it "managed records".Delphi has got inline const syntax. They talk about inline var, but from my Ada progr
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Last time I tried Delphi Community Edition, I had to give them my email just to download it, then when I tried any of the templates the IDE showed, it wouldn't build at all, don't show me a template if it doesn't work.I received an email from someone asking how I was liking Delphi, I naively responded with my issue, but quickly realized he was just trying to sell Delphi. I would have bought Delphi over the years if they had a personal license for $99 or something, I am not investing thousands of dollars on a software where the free trial blows up out of the box (not intentionally it seemed).
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
No Linux support is a shame. Fortunately there's Lazarus and FreePascal as an alternative.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Unfortunately, if you intend on using Delphi, that will be $1200 plus $399 a year for the basic commercial license, and if you also intend on using databases, that will be $4600 plus $1399 a year. Or, you could use .NET, which is $0, and overwhelmingly better supported at this point.Embarcadero is milking a shrinking captive market, VMWare style. It makes perfect financial sense given the asset, but it's unfortunate for those of us with happy memories of Delphi 6 and 7.
hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Sadly it was a very lousy port, if I remember correctly instead of properly supporting Linux, they used Wine to make it work, thus it had quite a few issues.Secondly, it was trying to sell developer tools to a community that rather spend one month coding an alternative than pay regardless if it is a Starbucks XL cappuccino they would be losing.
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