The problem Delphi ran into a while back comes down to one key factor: PRICE
What is the current cost of their professional version now? Something greater than 1000 buck I believe, and it's been that way for quite some time. In this age, when anyone with a ".edu" email address (DreamSpark) or website (WebSpark) can get Visual Studio pro for free, anyone can get Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA for free, anyone can get Python + any IDE for it for free, or get Atom/Brackets for Javascript/HTML for free, it's no wonder practically NO ONE is buying and then using Delphi. This is especially true when it's so platform limited. The IDE only works on Windows, it has no real Linux support (sorry Kylix), the OSX VCL tooling is abysmal (my god its awful). You add these in with the fact that more and more developers have been moving to web applications, and you have a recipe for failure.
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