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...Delphi's not dead - see http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi, now it's cross platform, modern language featu
by alberte 11y ago
...Delphi's not dead - see http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi, now it's cross platform, modern language features - generics, lambdas etc etc. Writing a Mac app in it right now :-)
- kennydude 11y ago"cross platform" to whatever they feel like. I remember in college my teacher bought the new version for that. Turned out "Native Android support" was phonegap which isn't native.
- TimJYoung 11y agoAbsolutely false: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delphi.html http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/compiling_android_apps_delph...
- kennydude 11y agoCollege was before 2013 and I haven't looked at it since.
- PeCaN 11y agoIt's actually native now, albeit kind of a mess (or at least the C++ version is; I haven't used Delphi). For example, Windows/x86, Windows/x64, and ARM are all different compilers (OS X and ARM are both clang; x64 is an older clang, x86 is totally different) that support different features and have subtly different behavior sometimes. Then there are differences between VCL and Firemonkey, so don't even try porting an existing Win32 app. It's only portable if you try really hard.
- sevensven 11y agoYou're right, I didn't intend to state that it was :) After starting to use lazarus, I've seen the youtube tutorials by Embarcadero on Delphi 10 targeting mobile apps and it looks like a very productive environment: https://www.youtube.com/user/EmbarcaderoTechNet/playlists https://www.youtube.com/user/EmbarcaderoTechNet/playlists I just find the price tag for the current delphi way too steep (+5k usd?) and I think that was part of decline of the suite. Being able to target linux GUI is really relevant for me and freepascal + lazarus provides that. Delphi doesn't.
- jrjr 11y agocurrent pricing makes it dead.