That was the version 2006, it was not stable at all. Before that version the IDE was rewritten to look more like Visual Studio, and also Delphi was able to compile Object Pascal code into .NET CIL.

On the other hand Delphi 7 (older version than 2006) was stable, actually one of the most stable IDE ever developed by Borland.

>>Delphi was a GREAT product.
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>Maybe it was.
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>I had to work on Delphi (2006? I think) native applications that were hooked to an Oracle 9i database.
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>The language wasn't too bad, and data handling was easier than .NET by far.
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>Problem was Delphi itself was one of the buggiest priducts I've had the displeasure of working with since maybe VFP 3.
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>The develpment environment would crash for no particular reason when you were just ediitng a source file. It would nicely give you a message that it had crashed. Your work since last save was gone.
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>It would crash while debugging.
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>It would crash in the help system.
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>It would crash on startup.
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>Walk away from the machine for a while and come back - it's crashed again.
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>I had it on 3 different machines at the railroad where I was on contract. All would do it. I reinstalled completely on 1 of the machines (OS and all). Same result.
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>The language seemed nice.
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>I never want to deal with it again. I've had a number of calls to do so - Apparently there are some fairly large Delphi applications that can't find developers to support them. I can see why.
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