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Borland made the best dev tools in their day, but they sorta lost the edge early in the Builder run and other tools became more desirable. At least, that's why I stopped using them.

I don't know about Mac support. I did Apple development during those days as well, but I didn't use Borland tools for that, I used CodeWarrior.



LightSpeed C, later renamed THINK C, had the Mac market sewn up before CodeWarrior. They had an excellent hypertext help built in, before web browsers. They were bought by Symantec, added C++, and then got beat out by Metrowerks.


> I did Apple development during those days as well, but I didn't use Borland tools for that, I used CodeWarrior.

Are you sure “those days” were the same days? Turbo Pascal for Mac was released in 1986 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal#Turbo_Pascal_for_...), CodeWarrior in 1994 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior#Release). By that time, I think Borland already had left the Mac market.


Yes, you're absolutely right. The past starts to all blend together.


I think CodeWarrior was just the superior IDE for anything Mac back in the day. I wasn't a mac guy, but I recall it basically being the only option my buddies would consider back then.


CodeWarrior was really great. I think it's one of the best IDEs to be produced to this day.


Few things unlock my late 90's programming nostalgia like hearing "CodeWarrior". "Eiffel" is a close second. Kylix is also on that list.


Whatever happened to Eiffel?

Just left behind by the March of Java?


Yes, and no, they were left by FOSS programming languages and modern devs not wanting to pay for their tools.

Just like Borland/Embarcadero, they now live from enterprises with deep pockets.

https://www.eiffel.com/


Yep. I used ThinkC and ThinkPascal besides the MPW toolchain. They were just a nicer fit.




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