So, I've been active on HN for almost 12 years now - I see how developers especially young ones chase the new and shiny over the existing. We'll probably move the front end at some point once we find something suitable. Net while keeping the frontend in Delphi for now. Via RPC and message queues we can implement pieces in. So far we're moving the "backend" stuff to. I'm not sure we could have gotten this far with such few developers with any other tool/platform.īut as I said, things are changing. This with a team of 7 devs total and zero hired manpower. The largest customer has 25 integrations, 20 of them entirely custom including non-trivial new user interfaces, and got onboarded in less than a year from signing the contract. ![]() To give some perspective, we've got hundreds of businesses with many thousands of users, many large modules which constantly evolve, we have tons of custom integrations per customer, including custom data entry windows/screens. We've looked at moving to the web, but none of the front-end frameworks and tools we've seen so far get anywhere close to the ease of Delphi when it comes to making decent looking user interfaces with nontrivial functionality that doesn't silently break in random weird ways from one day to the next.Īlso, if you want something in between a full CRM and "assembly level" database access, Delphi has some powerful libraries and components. It's also been difficult hiring developers. The IDE is far behind Visual Studio in terms of code completion and similar help. The language hasn't evolved much and is showing its age in many areas. These days it's obvious the years of lost momentum is taking a toll. ![]() We're crucial to daily operations of many local branches of well-known global businesses. Our main product is in Delphi, a B2B CRUD-ish application, with a 60% market share in our niche.
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