It should have swept the board, but somehow remained the best-kept secret in Windows development. Delphi changed the rules, with a Visual Component Library that enabled drag-and-drop programming and a fast native code compiler. You could have rapid development, or fast code, but never both. In 1995 it released its Visual Basic killer, a miracle called Delphi. Borland, however, still has a trick up its sleeve. The IDE was good enough, and owning the platform gave Microsoft C++ too many advantages for Borland to compete. The following year Microsoft brings out Visual C++ and condemns Borland to a C++ niche. Microsoft by contrast has C++ 7.0, the inelegant Microsoft Foundation Classes, and a complex DOS IDE called Programmer’s Workbench that nobody uses. Borland has Windows development sewn up, with the Turbo C++ 3.1 compiler, the excellent Object Windows class library, and even a Windows IDE.
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