Those people who started studying programming in the 1990s probably took their first steps in Object Pascal. It was the fashionable language of that pre-web era, considered the easiest to understand.

It is no wonder that this language is in the affective memory of many experienced professionals.

The Delphi language has recently celebrated 30 years since its launch. It is interesting to note how mature and consistent this language has become in 2025, with all the evolutions of computing in this period.

Delphi was launched in 1995 by Borland. It emerged as an evolution of the Pascal language with a focus on rapid application development (RAD).

Strong community

About 2% of developers use Delphi extensively, according to a Stack Overflow survey. 60 thousand developers were interviewed.  For a paid software intended for corporate clients, this is an impressive number. 

Delphi is characterized by being simple to learn and robustly integrating functions. 

The continuous updates of its versions and IDE made by its owner, Embarcadero, and an active community of experienced developers keep Delphi an up-to-date language with functions for current operating systems (Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux). 

Easy hand integrations

Another factor that keeps Delphi interesting is that there are several plugins to integrate specific functions. This makes product development much faster and with greater certainty that the solution will be robust without the risk of crashes. 

The TMS WEB Core framework is a powerful tool for creating such apps and can be integrated with WYSIWYG editors, for example. In other words, with a few clicks, it is possible to integrate an editor into the application and start using it. 

That's why, looking back over all these years as a computer programming professional, I see that we have to incorporate new languages. For example, when I had to learn React and Angular years ago. But having studied the basics with Pascal helped to have a solid foundation.