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They produced Kylix not that long ago - I had an original box set once upon a time. I have no idea why that didn't take off, but it was an excellent environment

• barking 10y ago
  kylix came out in 2001. That's verging on medieval :)
  • baq 10y ago
    yeah i remember reading about kylix in a paper magazine.
• pjmlp 10y ago
  > I have no idea why that didn't take off, but it was an excellent environment really. - It was a wrapper around Qt - Had some dependencies on Wine - The set of available controls was small - It was closed source - They expected GNU/Linux developers to be willing to pay for it
  • dfox 10y ago
    To clarify: dependency on wine means that the IDE was essentially windows application (stripped-down delphi) running on top of wine . Wine was not required for deployment of applications.
• squarefoot 10y ago
  Kylix was doomed from day one; I saw an official presentation (IIRC by Marco Cantù himself) ages ago and was shocked by its slugginess. At that time I was playing with Delphi2 at home and using Delphi 4 at work, and both of them literally run circles around Kylix. Today Delphi on Linux to me is called Lazarus. Some nasty bugs plaguing it are long gone since like 3 years and is very stable at the moment. You can even install it on a ARM based board (Orange PI PC here) which means it doesn't simply cross compile the code but the IDE itself runs on ARM architecture!