That's not really the case. With Delphi Community edition you get support for 4 operating systems, VCL and FireMonkey, it only lacks access to Enterprise databases like Oracle and some of the multi-tier architectures. Community has a large percentage (80%+) of the features...
We wanted to do MongoDB connections, which comes with FireDAC. But that's only available in the Enterprise Edition. So we ended up rewriting TMongoWire[0] to fit our needs.
I am sure you can do most things in Delphi in the Community edition, but it's a little too late, unfortunately.
How is that "professional" if you cannot even read/write to sqlite.
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions
"Build database apps with local/embedded connectivity" is in every edition.
The only difference is you need Enterprise or Architect to connect to "Enterprise class" databases like a remote Oracle server.
you can probably just use another Framework like (free) ZeosDB (http://zeoslib.sourceforge.net/)
or some paid ones e.g. from Devart (https://www.devart.com/dac.html)
but still, its frustrating to have to use something else for such basic functionality ...
Thanks for the correction.
Why would any company want to start developing in Delphi if the pricing/developer is suddenly going to jump to a ridiculously high number the moment they touch $5K/year limit?
But even the $5k/year limitation came in far too late.
I am very sad to see the way the Delphi community is languishing and slowly dying out.