Over the two decades I’ve come across a lot of Delphi projects.
All of them have one thing in common: even for functionality available in the Delphi libraries, much of that code was self-written.
You even see this in big libraries that have shipped with Delphi bit not originate from the Delphi team. Take Indy: lots of “roll your own” in it.
I’ve made some thoughts about that, and see these main causes with the points below.
What’s your thought on this?