Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software
Less emphasis on planning and more emphasis on an adaptive process.
Delphi supports native cross-compilation to many platforms including Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
Delphi is one of the languages where backward compatibility is close to 100%.
Delphi and C++Builder share many core components, notably the IDE, the VCL and FMX frameworks, and much of the runtime library. They can be used jointly in a project.