Quote Originally Posted by Lifepower
Delphi's still strong point is IDE, but honestly, after using latest Visual Studio you start to see the developers of Delphi as pawns who have fallen behind the marketing of .NET. A simple hint in Delphi code editor takes 2-5 seconds to load, while in Visual Studio it's instant. An IDE should be as much responsive as possible, so on this matter, .NET *is not the right tool for the job*.
As far as I know, both VS and Delphi IDEs are still written in native code and although some extensions are .NET-based, the editor is not. And IMO .NET performance is good enough for making a code-completion feature, as long as you design your code carefully with performance in mind. But I don't want to start a native code vs. managed code-war here