Phil Hess wrote: > > If Delphi is dead, then what's Lazarus? What I meant to say was that after about Delphi 7 and the rise of Visual Studio + .NET, Delphi took a major hit in popularity. Combine that with Borlands many failed attempt at getting into .NET and then deciding to sell Delphi, the future looked bleak.
This is what I meant with the uncertain future of Delphi (looking similar to Kylix). That's the time our company moved to FPC and Lazarus. The open source toolchain had a brighter future, so the idea of keeping ported components active for Delphi did not seem worth the effort. Embarcadero seems to be doing a better job with Delphi now, so maybe now there is more intensive to keep backward compatibility with Delphi. But I'm not going to bother. > The subtext is that with Delphi you can pull off the hat trick of a > 2.3 million line app that sells for big bucks and where the client > does not tolerate bugs or instabilities or excuses. Can anyone make > that claim for Lazarus? Well, our application is not quite that big, sitting around 300,000 lines of code at the moment. Our product also sells well (I'm still employed <wink>), and has an install base of over 15,000 computers. So yeah, I don't think we are doing to bad considering we are not using a commercial product like Delphi, but rather open source software like FPC and Lazarus. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
