I’ve closed the mini-pool, below are the results, obtained after 500 respondents, as well as some other stats not obviously evident from the poll results (as it was a multi-choice poll).*
They’re of course only relevant as the measurement to the audience of this site.
Outcome
500 respondents doesn’t seem much, but the percentages didn’t budge significantly after the first hundred votes were in.
Which Pascal environments do you use for WORK?
- Delphi 7 or older (classic IDE) (18%, 171 Votes)
- Delphi 2007 (modern IDE, pre-Unicode String) (10%, 100 Votes)
- Delphi 2009 to XE (Unicode String age) (14%, 134 Votes)
- Delphi XE2 (64bit age, iOS through FreePascal) (14%, 133 Votes)
- Delphi XE3 - XE4 (the orphaned versions) (14%, 139 Votes)
- Delphi XE5 (bleeding edge) (8%, 76 Votes)
- FreePascal / Lazarus (10%, 92 Votes)
- Oxygene (3%, 33 Votes)
- Smart Mobile Studio (2%, 22 Votes)
- Elevate Web Builder (2%, 15 Votes)
- DWScript (2%, 24 Votes)
- RemObjects Pascal Script (2%, 16 Votes)
- Pax Compiler (1%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 500
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Here are a few more results in terms of respondents (taking into account the multi-choices):
- 49% are still using a pre-Unicode Delphi at work – which I find quite high
- 9% are using a Pascal scripting engine at work – which I find quite low 😉
- 30% use a non-Delphi Pascal environment at work – which is higher than I anticipated
- 4% don’t use a Delphi version at work
Countries
And now the top 10 countries respondents are from. This figures are obviously going to be skewed towards English-reading countries, as this website is written in some variant English.
| Germany | 9.8% | |
| United States | 9.2% | |
| Brazil | 6.3% | |
| France | 6.3% | |
| Russia | 4.9% | |
| Italy | 4.6% | |
| United Kingdom | 4.2% | |
| Netherlands | 3.3% | |
| Australia | 3.2% | |
| Spain | 2.9% |
Thanks for participating!
Based on the numbers, 70% are using XE2 or higher at work. Nice. Not sure how much this is influenced by the multiple choice.
One option you might add in a future poll is how many people use a non-Pascal development tool at work.
The percentages can’t be right: taking the 1st four: 34%, 20%, 27%, 27% …
But hey, they they should please both the “old Delphi” and “XE2” camps…
As Bruce said, 70% are using XE2 or higher at work…while only 81% are using pre-XE2 versions.
Oops…never mind. I see now where those percentages came from (the multi-choice answers).
Can you tell us how many of those D7 users also use a more modern version?
Of the 171 that use D7 or older:
And finally, of the D7 users, 26% also use FreePascal/Lazarus.