Comment by magicalhippo

To be fair, Delphi was left to rot during a crucial point in time, around when .Net was being created. It has struggled ever since due to that.

And while the attention to backwards compatibility has been astounding, the move to Unicode-by-default strings was a non-issue for most unlike say Python, the language suffers and feels a bit tedious at times compared to say modern C#.

That said, for creating Win32 applications, especially CRUD stuff, there's nothing quite like it in terms of the efficiency of getting deliverables to customers.