* New things are typically more popular than older things.
* People not using ObjectPascal / Delphi love to hate on it.
* People using it feel outraged at the injustice, pointing out it's merits.
I have been using Delphi for about 30 yrs it seems. I have a love / hate relationship with it. Love the language and the ability to rapidly get the program I want created. Hate that version after version, the IDE STILL has stupid bugs; that the built-in help seems to get worse and worse with time (I don't want a slow web browser showing me Microsoft C calls and all sorts of irrelevant nonsense), and get very annoyed when having to get required custom components installed before being able to open a project using the components. And I REALLY dislike that they charge so bloody much for it. For business reasons I had to purchase a license that cost a few thousand dollars. Like 2 weeks later, sales people were calling me encouraging me to spend a similar amount to upgrade to the newest version that had just come out. They must have only a handful of paying customers and depend on the few to keep their entire business afloat.
* New things are typically more popular than older things.
* People not using ObjectPascal / Delphi love to hate on it.
* People using it feel outraged at the injustice, pointing out it's merits.
I have been using Delphi for about 30 yrs it seems. I have a love / hate relationship with it. Love the language and the ability to rapidly get the program I want created. Hate that version after version, the IDE STILL has stupid bugs; that the built-in help seems to get worse and worse with time (I don't want a slow web browser showing me Microsoft C calls and all sorts of irrelevant nonsense), and get very annoyed when having to get required custom components installed before being able to open a project using the components. And I REALLY dislike that they charge so bloody much for it. For business reasons I had to purchase a license that cost a few thousand dollars. Like 2 weeks later, sales people were calling me encouraging me to spend a similar amount to upgrade to the newest version that had just come out. They must have only a handful of paying customers and depend on the few to keep their entire business afloat.