I wonder, why don't they use Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/)? That would also make it cross-platform, and probably gain much more interest in the project.
Porting to it, might be an option at some point, but changing compiler without breaking anything, is not a tiny task for Delphi things.
I'd say the biggest roadblock would be JEDI which assumes Windows everything.
And this is a comment I often link whenever I ser any news related to Delphi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509
satya71•2h ago
nilslindemann•24m ago