14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Delphi first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We use Delphi at work. Our main application is a regular Windows desktop application.”
endorse · production · magicalhippo · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Delphi and/or Lazarus + FPC for 15 years. It's truly the most productive way to build a GUI desktop application”
endorse · production · 15 yr · bloblaw · 2020-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Delphi at work, just did a full rebuild of our core product, 978015 LOC compiled and linked in 22 seconds”
endorse · production · magicalhippo · 2019-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Delphi was way ahead of it's time.”
endorse · production · Clubber · 2017-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Did the same tutorial, just for kicks, in Delphi 7, completed it in less than a twentieth of the time”
endorse · production · candiodari · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is nothing wrong with Delphi from a technical point of view, however it's a shrinking area of work.”
mixed · production · 24 yr · mb_72 · 2016-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After that, Delphi became too outdated and I had to switch to other languages.”
regret · production · krasin · 2012-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bought Delphi ages ago, but never got very far with it, which I regret.”
neutral · personal · WillAdams · 2026-09-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wrote 100s of programs in pascal (for DOS and later Delphi) and C/C++ in the 80-90s myself”
neutral · production · anonzzzies · 2024-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started with Turbo Pascal 3, Moved to 4, 4.5, 5, 6 then Delphi.”
neutral · personal · malkia · 2023-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“first being done in Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, and then under my stewardship we moved to C#.”
neutral · production · mb_72 · 2020-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“directly imported into Delphi as unit in the 90s and on”
neutral · production · tluyben2 · 2016-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“adjusting the Delphi compiler to support anonymous methods, including supporting variable capture”
neutral · personal · barrkel · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?