> Is there any current major software written in Delphi?
That is not evidence for "no reason to exist".
The major reason for Delphi and/or Lazarus and/or Qt and/or similar WYSIWYG tool to exist is "when you want to produce a cross platform GUI application using a drag-and-drop form builder."
The fact that I can write a chat application that uses 30MB of RAM at runtime instead of 800MB like electron does is just icing on the cake.
That is not evidence for "no reason to exist".
The major reason for Delphi and/or Lazarus and/or Qt and/or similar WYSIWYG tool to exist is "when you want to produce a cross platform GUI application using a drag-and-drop form builder."
The fact that I can write a chat application that uses 30MB of RAM at runtime instead of 800MB like electron does is just icing on the cake.