Why not promote apps already written with Pascal ?
The main one I can think of is Skype, written with Delphi Pascal.
Not sure what that does for anyone here.
Nothing. ICQ, MSN Messenger and Skype are not popular any more... All of them (old desktop communication software) were replace by Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, and the like.
And isn't that a programming urban legend? If not, please post documentation.
I don't know if it's true, but he worked 3 years for Skype according to his LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/toivoannus
So I guess we've established that they were still using Delphi, what, a dozen years ago. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
https://forums.embarcadero.com/message.jspa?messageID=701932Re: Skype for Windows still Delphi?
Posted: Jun 11, 2015 12:31 PM
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It is still written in Delphi (specifically, in either D2009 or D2010).
I know this because the resources of the EXE file for the latest Skype version
(7.5.0.102 compiled on June 2 2015, according to its version resource) has
several Delphi-specific resources - DVCLAL, PACKAGEINFO, and CHARTABLE.
In particular, the CHARTABLE resource was introduced in Delphi 2009 and removed
in XE. It was used by early versions of the System.Character.TCharacter
class, but was later replaced with a const byte array declared directly in
the System.Character unit.
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Why Skype used Delphi?
http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/why_skype_used_delphi.htmlWhat programming language was Skype originally written in?
http://www.quora.com/Skype/What-programming-language-was-Skype-originally-written-in?mid=55546--------------------
Toivo Annus, worked at Skype
Updated Jun 4, 2011 · Upvoted by
Andreas Sjölund, worked at Skype and
Jaanus Kase, I designed Skype chat in 2004
The original internal alpha version of UI was built in QT and we hoped to do few platforms at same take. However the result looked like crap, our progress seemed slow and we ditched the QT about 2 months before public beta release.
Delphi was chosen because our first senior UI developer was very skilled at Delphi (besides dozen other languages-environments) and we saw D as most productive, fastest, efficient way to build our app given our team/lead developer skills and also getting very good UX on MSWin platform.
For linux the QT remained and on OSX it has been Cocoa from the start. The functional core components which did the heavy lifting under the UI have always been the same C/C++ as Ahti pointed out.
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What is Skype coded in?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Skype-coded-inSkype employs Delphi programmers
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Delphi 5 years, 8 months ago (December 2011 or January 2012)
Here such announcement has appeared in social network LinkedIn then has instantly scattered on many other things sotsialkam and to blogs. It would Seem anything remarkable. But …
All know that Skype is written on Delphi, and is hardly probable not the most known Delphi application. As many know that not so long ago Skype has been got Microsoft. Concerning what there were enough conjectures. Many thought that one of the most popular messadzherov will be copied in other environment of working out. Now we see that it has not occurred, and similar will not occur. Otherwise in what sense of hiring (actually Microsoft'ом) Delphi developers?
As is curious on what version Delphi, obviously, is written Skype.
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