Delphi's 25th Birthday
I loved Delphi. It was amazing. But then they ate their own future by going to the stratosphere with enterprisey tool acquisitions nobody remembers the names of any more; then they fell back down to earth, and flirted with Kylix -- Delphi for linux -- but at a time of great upheaval in the linux desktop world, and it never really took off either.<p>Meanwhile, the former creator of Delphi had left for MS and created C# that at the time was already beating Delphi at its own game.<p>By the mid 2000s Delphi was already dead in the water: poor unicode support, no 64-bit compiler, and a language that hadn't innovated much since the 90s.<p>It's a shame, really. Delphi in the 90s was on its way to rule the world. Only then suddenly it wasn't.