<story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?</title><text>I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codr7</author><text>Death by bean counting and enterprise bs, that&amp;#x27;s what happened.&lt;p&gt;I spent 13 years writing Object Pascal in Delphi full time, starting from Delphi 4 and ending right about where Embarcadero entered the scene.&lt;p&gt;They seriously dropped the ball by focusing on ticking enterprise boxes and charging insane amounts for it rather than evolving and fixing stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccleve</author><text>Exactly this.&lt;p&gt;Pascal was a great language, and I wonder how much we&amp;#x27;ve lost by having it go by the wayside. It was strongly-typed, easy to read, cross-platform, produced native executables, and was lightning fast to compile and execute.&lt;p&gt;I say &amp;quot;was&amp;quot; a great language because it isn&amp;#x27;t widely used today. I miss it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?</title><text>I recall early in my software development career Borland have a strong hold in the developer tool space (and largely loved by developers). What happened to them? They were the “JetBrains” of their day.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>codr7</author><text>Death by bean counting and enterprise bs, that&amp;#x27;s what happened.&lt;p&gt;I spent 13 years writing Object Pascal in Delphi full time, starting from Delphi 4 and ending right about where Embarcadero entered the scene.&lt;p&gt;They seriously dropped the ball by focusing on ticking enterprise boxes and charging insane amounts for it rather than evolving and fixing stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vrodic</author><text>I was under the impression that a lot of the original team was hired by MS and that was the end of Borland that created Delphi.</text></comment>