Well, delphi is Not dead. At least, today (July 2010). It will be dead at, idk... maybe at 2020 or something. Coz today we have a great choice of developing tools, not only for Win32, but for Compact PC, Mobile, iPhone (already 2!), Linux, macOS, android platform and so on... Delphi unable by default to support develpoment for these cool devices. It's a big mistake... And, as much as popularity of such compact devices will grow - it will lead delphi to its RIP date. IMO, year of 2020, or someting like that.
Delphi can die earlier. But... and thats very interesting... professional components for delphi can Revive it and can bring it to a very New lvl. Like today we have Ribbon UI in delphi only by TMS components, and unicode support by tntUnicode. Thats cool. Maybe component developers will grow delphi Up, and it will have long time living.
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