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).

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pasc1878 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is the really annoying part.

Delphi's predecessor if not Delphi itself was $99 (Turbo Pascal).

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giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. The minute they did away with Turbo Pascal I feel like they basically marked themselves as a legacy only company, I don't know anyone who is using them for net new projects that wasn't already all in on Delphi, you don't see new startups using them anyway. Had they kept Turbo Pascal, I do wonder how much more prevalent they could have been compared to now. It's still a solid way to make a native GUI.

	▲	lelanthran 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I would have bought something like Turbo Pascal today. What's stopping you? You can open your wallet to lazarus today, if you wanted.

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orphea 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I had to give them my email just to download it

But why? Just throw some garbage - a temporary email - at them if they so insist.

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giancarlostoro 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I could have sure, but it was for an account, and I can always unsubscribe or ignore them, doesn't phase me, I have like 20 gmail accounts that are old enough to vote, drink, and who knows what else

	▲	orphea 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Haha, okay, fair enough.