Why I choose Delphi

2017-08-15 22:49  whydelphi      [permalink]

Strange, all these Why I choose Delphi articles lately:

• Code Velocity: Why I Choose Delphi
• The Poscast at Delphi.org: Why I Keep Choosing Delphi
• Fixed by Code: Why I keep preferring Delphi
• Jens Fudge: Whi I choose Delphi
• Hit Compile and Run!: Why I Choose Delphi
• Marco Cantu: October 2017 Why I Love Delphi Summary

Keep them coming! It's good to see it stressed that it's really a myth that there's not enough Delphi talent out there. Rember, Delphi's debugger by itself is so strong, a decent developer should be able to learn both Delphi and an existing code-base that works just by stepping through the code with the debugger and see what it does. Yes, the language is a little verbose; yes, it's perhaps even older than C/C++; but remember, so is COBOL, and I would almost say that's not cross-platform or a systems language, but those just had other meanings back in the days. (Did you know there's Delphi for AS400?)

So, why do I stick with Delphi? The answer is pretty straight-forward (and perhaps a little sad): give me any kind of computing problem, and I'll find a way to tackle it with Delphi. I've done so much different things, and still found a way to get a great system I enjoy working on, and still have a Delphi project that its compiler happily churns into a binary executable that performs really well. Yes, you could do that also in C/C++/Rust/D/Java/(etc.) but I can't, and don't really want to. There are always up-sides and down-sides,  but it feels like with Delphi you don't meet much of any down-sides, and if you do some-one else knows something to do about it.

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