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# Delphi Reviews
**Vendor:** Embarcadero Technologies  
**Category:** [Other Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-integrated-development-environments-ide)  
**Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 33
## About Delphi
Delphi® is the world&#39;s most advanced IDE for rapid development with powerful features and visual design tools. Create high-performance native applications for billions of users on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux. Benefit from best-in-class Windows platform integration to build visually and technologically impressive apps ready for Windows 11. Single source code, any platform. Target Windows 11, iOS 15, macOS 12, Android 12 and Linux. Compile for Android API 30. Compile Delphi apps for macOS. M-series (Apple Silicon) processors. Design on high-DPI 4k+ screens. View VCL Styles in design time. New &amp; modernized VCL components. Use enhanced remote desktop support to collaborate remotely.




## Delphi Reviews
  ### 1. Decent IDE for out of date language

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tom W. | Research Economist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2019

**What do you like best about Delphi?**

IDE is pretty clean, the editor nicely indents code, structures data is very good.

**What do you dislike about Delphi?**

The language itself is very out of date and is mainly used for legacy products

**What problems is Delphi solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use Delphi to maintain several legacy products. The IDE is quite good and it integrates with Git.

  ### 2. Delphi XE8

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Chintan P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Delphi?**

The flexibility of making application. Delphi XE8 editor allows to make application in very less time with very good application performance. It is too many controls that can help to you create most robust application like providing theme to any application is such easy task with XE8. I strongly recommend making small application in very less time. Very easy to make graphical application, if you chose right control. You can make cross application development.  Your can make very Less coupled applicaiton by using XE8. It is little bit less user intuitive but once you will start using it you will start loving. by using fire monkey control you can make very strong application. Embercardero also provides same editor for  c++, and mote interest things that I have also heard is that you can make application by combining two programming language delphi as well as c++. if  you are migrating one language to another language, you do not need to wait for whole application complicate into newer language, you can run application that is written in both application and gradually migrate it.

**What do you dislike about Delphi?**

Very less and low user friendly documentation is being provided to developer. It uses only single CPU that make long running editor task much time consuming. Some plugin settings are stopping you to start work. One have to wait for 5-10 minutes. You must periodically save application, you don’t know when it gets crashed.

**Recommendations to others considering Delphi:**

Yes

**What problems is Delphi solving and how is that benefiting you?**

backward compatibility, application design, core function control.

  ### 3. easy to use

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** anshul a. | Sec Arch, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Delphi?**

Its a good product. Really easy to customize and great product support.

**What do you dislike about Delphi?**

Professional services experience wasn't worth the money spent on it.

**What problems is Delphi solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Automation and standardization.

  ### 4. Admin

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018

**What do you like best about Delphi?**

It was the only software we had at the time and it worked well once we were trained on it. I got the hang of it pretty easily.

**What do you dislike about Delphi?**

That it didn’t seem flexible as a web based program

**What problems is Delphi solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The entire customer database and how we did contracts was on it- so for that it was great

  ### 5. Very efficient tool, need a new marketing policy.

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** phil p. | Directeur, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2017

**What do you like best about Delphi?**

Very effective Wysiwyg RAD IDE tool for windows. Modern OO language with  strongly typed variables. Very easy to understand and use can create a good applications in short time even for many platforms :  Windows, macOS, iOS, Android.

**What do you dislike about Delphi?**

Very changing and non coherent commercial policy :
1/ Prices are rising and rising and rising: 
         XE2 pro update price  in 2011 : 500 euros with mobile dev. library.
         XE10 pro update price in 2017 : 1730 euros without mobile dev. library.
2/ With "pro"  licenc you don't have Client server database connectivity.
3/ Even with the new 'starte' free edition prices are not OK for beginners so 'No new blood '.


**Recommendations to others considering Delphi:**

Just try the free starter edition so considere to by the pro & C/S option for the development because it is a complete IDE and easy to use for targeting Windows, mobile dev Option for other plateforms.

**What problems is Delphi solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Create software products  sold to clients. Mainly with Delphi XE2.


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