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They did it for a while earlier too, circa 2006 with Turbo Delphi Explorer for Win 32 and .NET - two versions. Used both some. E.g.: https://jugad2.blogspot.co

• magicalhippo 6y ago
  True, however that earlier attempt was quite restricted which limited its usefulness.
  • vram22 6y ago
    Right. Forgot to mention that earlier. IIRC, two key useful features missing were the ability to import and use third-party components[1], and any built-in database-aware controls functionality[2]. They stripped out those two for the two Explorer versions. [1] That is a key feature of such 4GL-like RAD tools such as VB and Delphi, and a major reason for their success, coming somewhat close to the concept and holy grail of software reuse, like Software ICs/components, first propounded ages ago by Brad Cox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_component https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_component Adding a link for hardware ICs, the parent concept, which is also quite interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit [2] Removing database controls was another bad idea, because so many apps, even command-line or GUI utilities (not just line-of-business or enterprise apps, need DB support in the programming tool used to develop them. So they are restricting the ability to evaluate two very important Delphi features which can swing a buy/no-buy decision.