Quote Originally Posted by WILL
This could end up with us having a more competitive era for Pascal tool developers. Less Delphi-centric aims by other Pascal developers and more Chrome and Free Pascal support going around.
Few days ago I checked the latest version of Free Pascal, but it's still not as half as good as Delphi. In fact, I disliked Delphi for creating large EXEs (~400 Kb; KOL can be a nice alternative though), but when I saw FreePascal's empty application take several megabytes :shock: - it was out of question for me. Lazarus as an IDE is not that fancy either - Delphi 7 is much better (and Delphi 2006 IDE can't even be compared to Lazarus).

Actually, if Delphi product line won't get continued, I am still planning to move to C# + Visual Studio. Delphi 2006 is nice IDE, but if it won't be updated - it has no future (in fact, I think there are still bugs that haven't been fixed yet: "fatal exception" on exit anyone ).

I guess it'll be one more year for me with Delphi 2006 (maybe less), but then it's "hated friend" C# may take its place. :?