After several years of using Borland Delphi 2006, the company I work for decided to give us something to experiment on. After six months of the current year has passed, we finally got our copy of Codegear's Delphi 2009.
CodeGear promised a lot when they released the new version. They now even support Unicode. They changed the look of the IDE to fit with the new versions of Windows operating system. The best part of the deal is that we availed of CodeGear's promo which allows purchasers to get a free software from CodeGear of the same or lesser value. We availed of their JBuilder for developing Java applications but we may not utilize it as our main development tool.
The sad part of acquiring a new IDE is that our previous applicatins will not compile on Delphi 2009. The components we used were not compatible with Delphi 20009. Components used in Delphi 2009 are also changed in such a way that backward compatibility with the components we used in Delphi 2006 will never happen. It gave us a terrible headache on how we can migrate our applications. We might not migrate after all. Just develop new applications with Delphi 2009 and applications developed in Delphi 2006 will be remain as is. It is discouraging to know that our applications will not compiler in Delphi 2009 but we really don't have a choice. So far Delphi 2009 is a superb IDE providing developers with rapid development tools to shorten the development time of applications.
More information on CodeGear Delphi 2009 can be found here.
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