Delphi 1.0 struggled as a 16-bit Windows application as the transition to 32 bit happened. The next version was considerably more stable.
Delphi was awesome through 7.0. I didn't really track it after that, but I was a Delphi programmer for several years from release onwards (happened to come from a college that taught Pascal for the first year of CS), then worked for Borland on Delphi/C++Builder for a couple of years after that.
Borland really mishandled their language stack by alienating all the grassroots. Nothing against the later owners, but Delphi's pricing became absurdly tilted towards legacy enterprise projects.
Lazarus was mentioned earlier. Think they're fully compatible with the 7.0 state of things, which was decent. It's worth checking out for project prototyping, etc.
Delphi was awesome through 7.0. I didn't really track it after that, but I was a Delphi programmer for several years from release onwards (happened to come from a college that taught Pascal for the first year of CS), then worked for Borland on Delphi/C++Builder for a couple of years after that.
Borland really mishandled their language stack by alienating all the grassroots. Nothing against the later owners, but Delphi's pricing became absurdly tilted towards legacy enterprise projects.
Lazarus was mentioned earlier. Think they're fully compatible with the 7.0 state of things, which was decent. It's worth checking out for project prototyping, etc.