[fpc-pascal] Delphi compiler team left Embarcadero/Idera

[Anthony Walter]

The problem Delphi ran into a while back comes down to one key factor: PRICE

What is the current cost of their professional version now? Something
greater than 1000 buck I believe, and it's been that way for quite some
time.

In this age, when anyone with a ".edu" email address (DreamSpark) or
website (WebSpark) can get Visual Studio pro for free, anyone can get
Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA for free, anyone can get Python + any IDE for it
for free, or get Atom/Brackets for Javascript/HTML for free, it's no wonder
practically NO ONE is buying and then using Delphi.

This is especially true when it's so platform limited. The IDE only works
on Windows, it has no real Linux support (sorry Kylix), the OSX VCL tooling
is abysmal (my god its awful).

You add these in with the fact that more and more developers have been
moving to web applications, and you have a recipe for failure.
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