From $960 + $399/year.

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

pjmlp 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

On Microsoft, Apple, and game consoles, it is still pretty common to pay for development tools.

Also pretty common in enterprise tooling, which is the market of tools like Delphi.

The alternative is everyone getting surprised that their favourite free software development tools (only free thanks to VC money), eventually goes away.

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

The C# world also has quite a few paid libraries, especially for UI stuff.

Quite a few years ago I worked at a company using Delphi, and judging by their homepage they are still using it. A company making industrial machinery, with a tiny internal software department for the software for provisioning and maintaining the machines, as well as the control room software. Usability and development velocity is more important than looking hip, and easy access to hardware interfaces is paramount. And compared to developer salaries those license costs really aren't that bad

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

There is still a lot of legacy software out there. I worked on something for a little bit (probably around 10 years ago).

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1899-12-30 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's cheaper to pay that than rewrite in a better language.

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

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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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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piokoch an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There are companies using Delphi-based products for long years (for a good reason, this is still great technology) so they prefer to pay.