Delphi suffers from lack of popularity and thus lack of adequate funding.
Too many things at once (mac, linux, mobile, fmx, vcl, c++ builder).
Ideally, it would be as if the company would choose some one way and focus all attention and power on it, increasing quality and performance.
Delphi needs:
- Roadmap back!
- Make finally 64 bit IDE, compiler, linker etc. with total abandon of 32 bit(do not wasting time on 32 bit version and focus on one)
- performance (yes it matters all the time)
- Improve the quality and speed of bug patching (it's a little better than e.g. 5 years ago, but it's still outrageously slow comparing e.g. to VStudio, where we get some update, hotfix etc. every few weeks.
- Realise that developers need quality much more than new features (they don't understand it for over 25 years)