In my early programming days, working with Clipper, I used to look at Delphi from a distance with awe and a bit of jealousy. There also used to be PowerBuilder and Paradox, as competition to the xBase platforms.

I'd love to hear more about how you're using Delphi and what it excels at, compared to current web and native software stacks.

To be fair, Delphi was left to rot during a crucial point in time, around when .Net was being created. It has struggled ever since due to that.

And while the attention to backwards compatibility has been astounding, the move to Unicode-by-default strings was a non-issue for most unlike say Python, the language suffers and feels a bit tedious at times compared to say modern C#.

That said, for creating Win32 applications, especially CRUD stuff, there's nothing quite like it in terms of the efficiency of getting deliverables to customers.

Not the parent commenter, but what Delphi always excelled at was being able to quickly click together a GUI (with a WYSIWYG UI designer) and easily hook up the events (onClick etc.) to your code. That, and the blazing fast compilation speed which contributed to making quick iteration easy. Think VB6, just with a "serious" compiled language sitting behind it. Current versions of Delphi also support MacOS, iOS, Android and Linux (?), although I'm not sure how well that works, as I got off the Delphi train back in 2010.