I find it ironic they describe it as “25 Years of Excellence” because, as much as people go on about the competition, what really broke Delphi was its poor quality control

I bloody loved that language, but all of the components had serious errors that resulted in crashes. To make it worse, they are their own dog food, meaning the IDE itself crashed all the time.

This wouldn’t have been so bad, but then VB5 happened, which was much, much worse semantically but absolutely rock solid.

Of course, then C# happened, but devs like me had already left the ecosystem. (And the less said about all that bundled cruft the better.)