Interestingly Delphi and C++ Builder and now available in free community editions but confusing bundled together as "RAD Studio." I've wanted to write a specific Windows native app of late that needs to call a bunch of Windows APIs, and so C++ Builder is back on my machine. (I wish the small binaries of old hadn't become megabyte monsters... I'm sure I don't need most of what's in there)
Embarcadero Launches Free Community Edition Of Delphi And C Builder For Mainly Non-commercial Use
M is a database language; and did not have very mature Windows bindings. For a reason lost in history, Delphi was chosen in the VA to write the Windows Clients in the mid 90's. In IHS, Visual Basic was chosen. I view the choice of Delphi as a very fortunate accident. It was easy to write applications in; it does not have an major security issues; and it has a vendor that continuously supports it. People who wrote their code in Visual Basic 6 saw their language deprecated; and the attempts to write a Java Windows clients in a government environment where updates could not be made frequently proved to be a problem. Delphi, unfortunately, is not open source, and until a few months ago, it was expensive to get a license. Now Embarcadero offers free licenses for a community edition. 2ff7e9595c
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