Still Programming in Delphi
I learnt Pascal at Uni in the late 70s and then used Compas Pascal; the precursor to Turbo Pascal in 1984. 36 years later for my sins I'm still working on Delphi development as it underpins commercial PropTech products. Two products, each about 1.3 million loc and way too big to ever convert to any other programming language. They've been modernised by adding C#/WPF on the front end but the bulk of the products are still in Delphi and now also in 64-bit.
And more recently I've made dynamic virtual channels (DVC) work, completely in Delphi after rewriting 1500 lines of C++. DVC is a Microsoft technology that lets you communicate between a program on your computer and a program running in an RDP session. Delphi is still very versatile and the compiled code is fast. It's just a pity that the desktop development job market is a bit dying these days compared to Web and mobile development!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
