Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support

Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it.

Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).

HauntingPin an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What's the relationship between Delphi and Lazarus?

	▲	KronisLV 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Delphi is commercial: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions Lazarus is free with no artificial limitations, for FreePascal: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
	▲	utopcell an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It's a Delphi-compatible IDE: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
	▲	tonyedgecombe an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Pascal

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baal80spam an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it? What about Autohotkey, or Visual Studio?

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mauriciolange 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Two very different solutions. Autohotkey is a scripting language for specific tasks, while Delphi is unbounded in this sense. And Visual Studio has no RAD concept.

	▲	sumnole 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Visual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.

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vbezhenar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

From $960 + $399/year.

I think it's quite an accomplishment to survive in the modern world of free software development tools.

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giancarlostoro 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't just made a hobbyist tier. Especially when FreePascal allows you to make UIs with Lazarus for free.

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vbezhenar 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

They have free community edition. Main restriction seems to be: "If you're an individual, you may use Delphi CE to create apps for your own use and apps that you can sell until your revenue reaches US$5,000 per year."

So should be perfectly enough for hobbyist.

	▲	giancarlostoro 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I tried it, it would not compile some of the templates it came with for me. Their QA process must be terrible.

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andsoitis 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Delphi's great. You can rapidly create apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

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davikr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I tried Lazarus recently, but I found the IDE to be slow.

	▲	1313ed01 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I have not tried the IDE, but I like FreePascal. The compiler is fast and it has great multiplatform and cross-compilation support. In particular for older platforms. It feels more stable and mature than most other languages. I do not know if there are enough developers keeping it alive, but hopefully it will mostly get bug fixes and ports to new platforms. Better if they do not mess with the language or standard libraries. Those that want a programming language that keeps breaking backwards compatibility every few months have plenty to choose from already.