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Porting from Delphi to JS, will unalive your blog from Delphi RSS Sites.<br>Embarcadero is fearful when Delphi's rotten web implementations frustrate developers and developers are easily porting to free JS tools. The Delphi Moat has greatly shrunk.

Delphi Critic<br>Jul 07, 2026

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Delphi as Secret Weapon

Embarcadero is on a marketing spree to convince developers Delphi and C++ Builder is a “secret weapon”, and winning developers use Delphi to gain competitive advantages.<br>One wonders what kind of advantages are there, except buy-this, buy-that and end up in dozens of useless subscriptions?<br>Thanks for reading Delphi Nightmares Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Embarcadero Blogs1 uses WordPress, the Delphi help website, is a PHP site.

Delphi Documentation Site Errors<br>Delphi Critic<br>June 25, 2024

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When developers find success in Dart/Flutter, Go and Python. They are disconnected, isolated, and de-listed from BeginEnd, DelphiFeeds and other popular Delphi sites.

Photocredit: BeginEnd.net

Delphi to JS.

The latest victim is Dr. Holger’s site. He posts on porting Delphi TMS to NextJS, titled “Four Hours to Migrate a 6-Year-Old Delphi Multi-Tier App2”.<br>Dr. Holger describes porting from Delphi + TMS Web + TMS XData + Firebird.

Photo credit: holgerscode.com/blog/2026-07-02<br>TMS is an Embarcadero Partner. Somebody with weight in the Delphi community. Their offering, TMS Web, is a custom Pas to JS parser solution.<br>Going to host on Linux? Haha. You need to buy Delphi Enterprise, then cross-compile to Linux. Need to use MySQL where MySQL exists on another server? Good luck with the .so files and cross-platform run-time files compatibility.<br>Dr. Holgar describes the actions needed to port this project to NextJS.<br>We are, genuinely, at a new place. For the first time, a developer’s experience and taste can be applied at the speed of thought instead of the speed of typing. The bottleneck moved from “how fast can I write it” to “how well can I direct and judge it.” That’s not a threat to good engineers. That’s the best day good engineers have ever had.<br>I’m more excited about building software than I’ve been in years. Four hours for a month of work will do that to you.

Delphi is single-EXE file code-generation for Windows. For Linux, you need to install many pre-requisites3, you start wondering if your site has hidden vulnerabilities. Are there any known CVEs against Delphi Linux?<br>Thanks for reading Delphi Nightmares Substack! This post is public so feel free to share it.

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Your author briefly saw about Delphi to Next.JS on BeginEnd, Delphi Feeds… and it disappeared.<br>The greatness of Delphi is to use is it as a secret weapon to gain competitive advantage.

Delphi + Lua = Super-powered App…?

Delphi + Python = Super-duper App?

More like:

Delphi Dead-weight,<br>Rewrite Delphi object-pascal to another language.

Embarcadero calls you for license compliance.<br>Cannot activate Delphi (after not renewing subscription).

Social media harassment.<br>Slander, libel, defamation.

Loss of reputation, loss of opportunity.

DelphiFeeds, BeginEnd is becoming an echo chamber as more blogs are removed.

AI can port Delphi to JS, Delphi to Dart/Flutter, Delphi to Go, and move to production environment, without Delphi.

Bonus: It seems now, there is gatekeeping. Your author tried adding this blog to BeginEnd, DelphiFeeds and was denied.<br>1Embarcadero RAD Studio, Delphi, & C++Builder Blogs – Blazing Fast Cross-Platform App Development Software for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android

2Four Hours to Migrate a 6-Year-Old Delphi Multi-Tier App — Holger's Code

3jimmckeeth/Linux4Delphi: Scripts and resources to simplify the setup and development with Delphi on Linux.

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