NET environment was comparable with the VCL in all the important ways, meanwhile even a basic version of Delphi would break your bank or be plain out unavailable to student budgets. Microsoft was able to deliver a programming environment, that you could download for free, and its. Delphi was a genius system, but Borland (and later its successors) completely misunderstood the changing computer world. The problem with Delphi was never Delphi. Having spent 5+ years working as a Delphi coder, I was now a student again and the prices for Delphi were simply outrageous. I stopped using Delphi, maybe a decade ago, largely because I had no choice. This is an old thread, but could do with some updating. Delphi did have Kylix at one time, but not Mac support.īut with both of those and 64-bit promised soon by Embarcadero, you've answered my question by telling me there's no reason (at least for me) to switch.
Currently that is multiplatform support and possibly 64-bit support. My as-much-as-I-understand conclusions from your answers as to why someone might switch from Delphi to Lazarus: obviously it must be providing something that Delphi currently can't.
(You will still have to invest your time to convert and learn. The Lazarus for Delphi Users section of the Lazarus Wiki says:īecause Lazarus is free is not a reason to switch, but does not penalize you in physical $'s for switching. I guess I thought you could leave everything in Delphi and just change IDEs. There seems to be some disagreement as to whether Lazarus can or cannot be used as an editor in developing Delphi code. The answers are leaving me with more questions than I had before. What are the advantages that Lazarus has over the Delphi IDE, and why would, or should a Delphi programmer switch to it? I've been very happy with the Delphi IDE for programming in Delphi.īut I've heard about the Lazarus programming environment, and I've also heard that some Delphi programmers use it instead of the Delphi IDE.
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