The original borland delphi had very creative installer graphics:

https://www.gladir.com/SOFTWARE/DELPHI1/delphi1-install5.png

Happy birthday Delphi, you made me a lot of money :-)

I am guessing most Delphi developers like me, have either retired or have moved to Linux. I have done both recently and I unfortunately do not see a new generation following in behind me. I hope it survives as it was and still is a nice IDE and language to work in, though I'm guessing newer Pascal developers will opt for Lazarus

Is it still alive? Last time I used it was around 2005.

One nice thing though as I remember was that ruins of Russian Borland branch gave us Jetbrains.

Weird but FreePascal is fairly solid for its niche.

Straight up, nobody uses it anymore.

I'm now retired, but I spent much (most?) of my career developing with Delphi. When I began, it was the new hotness. When I finished, I was supporting legacy applications that were decades old. Good to see it's still around, though.

What is dead may never die

The hardest part of maintaining a long-term project is resisting the urge to over-engineer early on. Striking a balance between a lean core and future extensibility is an art form that often gets ignored in favor of shipping fast.

31 years old and it can't run on GNU/Linux. What a waste. The future of Delphi is darker than ever.