The measure of the worth of a tool is how quickly it can help you to get a quality working product in the hands of end users.
Do programmers today actually value their time?
Do they know how to negotiate good prices for products and services they provide customers and clients?
The quality is Delphi is rooted in the third-party components that help to ship good quality products quickly.
There is a free version that beats anything you can get out of Jetbrains. So why don't folks just download the free version and try it out instead of listening to naysayers and cheap skates on HN?
I mean Uber drivers pay more for their working tools than software developers and they don't whinge about it, when software developers are supposed to be capable of earning more than uber drivers. What's this beggar they neighbour attitude among software developers?
I don't disagree with you, if it was really good however there are better (more productive) languages that Jetbrains have excellent IDEs for.
If we want to talk about productivity and power, Delphi is now so expensive that it is in the same neighborhood as a LispWorks licence.
If Delphi was much more powerful it might be a reasonable investment, as it is, it is powerful than most of the languages Jetbrains ship IDEs for and widely more expensive.
You ignore that Delphi is not just the IDE, it is the whole ecosystem of components that are developed to work with it, and these components usually come with source code and are supported by developers who are incentivised to make them work.
It is the tool used by developers whose customers want custom stuff done yesterday, customers whose time is 100s worth more than the trifling sums that open source developers are unable to get even their commercial users to pay for or contribute to.
This is precisely the type of attitude that keeps Inprise/Idera or whoever it is that owns Delphi from coming up with a reasonable price for the product which the market can afford. Refusing to listen to the end users has been Borland's bane since the late 1990s and continues through Inprise/Idera etc
Do programmers today actually value their time?
Do they know how to negotiate good prices for products and services they provide customers and clients?
The quality is Delphi is rooted in the third-party components that help to ship good quality products quickly.
There is a free version that beats anything you can get out of Jetbrains. So why don't folks just download the free version and try it out instead of listening to naysayers and cheap skates on HN?
I mean Uber drivers pay more for their working tools than software developers and they don't whinge about it, when software developers are supposed to be capable of earning more than uber drivers. What's this beggar they neighbour attitude among software developers?