[DUG] What is the future for Delphi programmer?

[Jeremy Coulter]

apparently FreePascal does iPhone stuff now. I saw tehy released a new
version withing the last week or 2, and it mentioned iPhones as being
supported now.

Jeremy

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>wrote:

>
> > 1. Still maintaining Delphi code?
> Yes
>
> > 2. Started a new Delphi project in the last year?
> Yes 2 or 3
>
> > 3. Started a new project in another language in the last year (what was
> > the language)?
>
> No - well HTML
>
> > 4. What other languages are you using learning?
>
> Considering PHP or Ruby for Rails.
>
> I want to wait and see if there is a posibility to compile Delphi for
> iPhone
> and/or Android.   If  Embarcadero are smart enough to jump into that hugely
> growing niche and it eventuates then Delphi could be a killer language
> again.   Neither of those platforms are likely to see .NET anytime soon and
> are likely to be the biggest development areas over the next 10 years.
> Likely to start killing Windows too.
>
> Thats a prediction, as I saw minicomputers killed by the PC in the 90's
>
>
> John
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list
> Post: delphi at delphi.org.nz
> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
> Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-request at delphi.org.nz with Subject:
> unsubscribe
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserver.123.net.nz/pipermail/delphi/attachments/20100112/4c00b1b7/attachment.html