Comment Re:Price and licensing killed Delphi (Score 1) 262
Gone. (Watcom, Symantec, JPI, Utah, Marshall, Oregon, Stoney Brook, ...)
Most of those companies did command line or text IDE compilers for DOS. Just doing a DOS compiler wasn't too bad in terms of effort since DOS is a simple OS and the languages 20 years ago tended to be simpler. Today you have to add in Windows API support, a new version of Windows every couple of years, OOP, evolving language standards, and an IDE which is a major Windows application itself. The difficulty level has one through the roof.
Most of those companies did command line or text IDE compilers for DOS. Just doing a DOS compiler wasn't too bad in terms of effort since DOS is a simple OS and the languages 20 years ago tended to be simpler. Today you have to add in Windows API support, a new version of Windows every couple of years, OOP, evolving language standards, and an IDE which is a major Windows application itself. The difficulty level has one through the roof.
