Comments on: Delphi / C++Builder Roadmap 2005-2008 Powerpoint slide

By: Prince Riley

Prince Riley — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:14:32 +0000

Like to see more on the future of Kylix

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:47:38 +0000

Delphi has always been my language of choice and i look forward for better releases

By: Jon Lennart Aasenden

Jon Lennart Aasenden — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:14:27 +0000

One thing that seems to be forgotten here, is the future of Kylix.

While borland may have jumped the gun on Linux, or gotten a better deal (wakeup call?) from M$ in creating kylix - i believe that that the Linux marked has become a better marked now.

I never thought about linux earlier - but if i have to choose between .net and native linux, the jump to linux is easy. I did not spend 6 years of delphi coding to throw away my knowledge of the VCL.

Get Linux back on track - or even better, start building for the mac!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:29:53 +0000

Mark, I think people are too *slow* to jump onto newer technologies. You simply cannot compare the productivity and quality of tools written 5 years ago compared to those just coming out today. If you use the new stuff, there may be some hiccups, but once you get past those, they allow developement at a much faster pace. If you are 3-5 years behind the curve, then you are losing the integral across time of the productivity difference across your entire career and/or times the number of your colleagues. The difference is staggering, in my opinion.

At our company, we just "caught up" and cannot believe what we have been missing. I personally regret having taken such a conservative approach in the past. Human effort is so precious that it should not be wasted with mundane tasks that have since been automated/solved in newer tools.

By: Mark Jacobs

Mark Jacobs — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:57:20 +0000

I can wait until 2008 for a new IDE/compiler/linker for BCB. I currently use C++ Builder 5 Pro SP1 and I can’t see me needing to go beyond this in the next 2 or 3 years. I think people are too quick to jump on under-developed development technologies.

By: Alex Ivanenko

Alex Ivanenko — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:53:58 +0000

CLX is dead… how sad.

By: Alexandre Marcondes

Alexandre Marcondes — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:11:00 +0000

Is there any plan to let VCL.NET, dbWeb.NET, dbGo.NET and other Borland components for .NET be free from Win32 API? Today there is a lot of dependencies on Win32 platform (I think using PInvoke) … Is there a plan to be free from this Old API on .NET environment? Is there any plan of supporting GNU/Linux in the future?

By: Daniel Wischnewski

Daniel Wischnewski — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:53:35 +0000

Thanks, I’ll link my blog to it. And yes, this image is much, much better Looking forward to the upcoming releases of our beloved IDE.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:41:01 +0000

Great information… A couple questions:

1. Will Dexter allow C# and VCL to be used togehter (I assume so), or does C# only allow use with Winforms for writing client apps?

2. Why is native 64-bit so far out? I agree with Eric, that I had hoped it would be sooner than that. The perception I have is that my code "should just compile" with a 64-bit processor, assuming I didn’t assume size of pointer = size of int. I would like to be able to provide 64-bit compiles of my apps sooner rather than later.

By: Eric Fortier

Eric Fortier — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:22:39 +0000

While Dexter will rock, it seems I won’t be able to use Borland’s Delphi/C++ for 64 bits programming for some time… That sucks!