Borland wants your opinion on Delphi!

[technomage]

I think Kylix was a brave move by borland, but to be honest how many people have actually brought it? I got Kylix 1 but didn't get any upgrades after that. Which is a shame if you think about it because its one of the only commercial RAD tools for Linux.

I agree it doesn't look good for Delphi/Kylix and .Net seems to be taking the lead. But the good news is that until a game written in .Net can outperform a compiled game (in Delphi/C++ etc) there will still be a need for native compilers, no matter how fast computers get.

Perhaps there is still hope

[LP]

In my opinion, if I decide to move to .NET, I'd use M$ Visual Studio and C# - has similar features but the IDE is much faster than Delphi 2005 and *much more stable* (no "Catastrophic failure" and "Internal error" notices). Never needed Kylix & other stuff. Tried to work with databases since Delphi 7, it was very unstable (crashed at every second SQL query), so again gave up on it. For game development, Delphi 2005 (we own PRO version) is ok, but the instability is disturbing. All .NET support is like garbage - we don't need it but Delphi 2005 doesn't run well without it, what a waste! The *only* usefulness from .NET for us would be creating PocketPC applications, but D2005 doesn't support that as RAD (M$ Visual Studio does!). In fact, it looks like Delphi 2005 can't even compile a simple mobile .NET application, so... not good. :cry:

Answered their poll based on the points mentioned above...