A product can’t survive without
- A work force
- A jobs market i.e. new Delphi jobs
- Up-to-date libraries
- Commercial trust in the future of the product and the above factors
- New projects coming onboard each year
I did not suggest legacy projects don’t exist, that they don’t work great or that their developers aren’t great - they do and they are.
But the sad reality is, these projects live only because of their developers who are ageing and their projects will die with them they retire or sadly pass away. This cliff has now been reached. How many Delphi developers really plan to be still working in 5 years time in Australia?
No major new work has been started in Delphi, in the western world over the last 10 years at any commercial scale to support a work force, support the third party vendors or support the future of Delphi.
Feel free to document a major app or project that started out new in the last 10 years in the western world in delphi and reached commercial success.
A product can’t be considered serious if its only being used for maintenance and hobbyist. This is the definition of dying.
Ian and his friends nailed the last nail in the coffin when they refused to release a yearly roadmap.
They’ve also never shown any factual data to counteract all the factual evidence out there about Delphi’s commercial death. No subscriber numbers etc to prove we are wrong.
YouTube views of Delphi VS Microsoft releases, forum usage, professional group membership etc all provide a picture so clear you really have to be true to the faith to believe its not the case.