Delphi

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “the power of Object Pascal and Delphi was the ability to create reusable components that could be easily installed into the IDE. These components had powerful property sheets”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “Delphi came along and made all that true for windows apps too!”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-14

• “Delphi was great for me and helped me get a mortgage and things like that”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “adding a couple of libraries to a Delphi project back in the Office 2000s era and getting full docking, configurable toolbars, etc. with little to no work”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “seemed easier 20+ years ago when in high school we were taught how to use Delphi”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-29

• “I wouldn't have a career if I didn't have pirated copies of VC++ 6 and Borland Delphi”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-29

• “a version of Delphi that wont run on something newer than windows 7 and tell me how well that works out for you”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “what Delphi always excelled at was being able to quickly click together a GUI (with a WYSIWYG UI designer) and easily hook up the events (onClick etc.) to your code. That, and the blazing fast compilation speed which contributed to making quick iteration easy.”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “Delphi's interfaces are heavily based around COM, and so you need GUIDs, ARC, etc.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “I still remember the thrill of working on my ancient Delphi/Object Pascal projects”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-06

• “Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “It reminds me of my Delphi days: File->New Project, and you're ready to go.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-16

• “Good memories. I moved from Turbo Pascal to Delphi 1.0 when it came out. I used them all through Delphi 5.0 Enterprise.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-20

• “I love Delphi. The best days of my life as a developer were spent using Delphi.”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-02-19

• “From someone who used "new delphi" for years this part feels like it was made up on the spot! If you have a crash, it is usually you doing something wrong with your controls.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-19

• “back-office software in Delphi that ran for 15+ years without any maintenance or support”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-18

• “Nothing compares to Delphi's productivity. Rails is good, but it doesn't even come close to Delphi's productivity.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-18

• “Delphi was the fastest way to create a full windows desktop app and do it as single compiled-to-native-code executable”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-18

• “I was bad at Delphi and they didn't really care about consistency, so I went that route”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-31

• “a domain expert could fire up either Delphi or Visual Basic 6, and build a program that was useful for them”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-27

• “These complaints have mostly been addressed a long time ago, the solutions were mostly stolen from C where applicable, I refer to Delphi”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-04

• “Like, in Delphi you had a "Form" on which you dropped "Controls" and then you could also create your own controls if you were really advanced.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “I proceeded to create "TISFAT" (This is Stick Figure Animation Theatre) in Delphi, inventing my own "inverse kinematics" algorithm”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-04

• “With Delphi I was able to create great apps in a matter of days. And users loved them, because they were so snappy and well thought out.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-31

• “for me that was a feature when I used it in Delphi. Allowed me to differentiate them when using them as type parameters (generics).”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-27