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Delphi.NET was a side project so to speak, and was mostly done under contract by RemObjects, which kept selling their compiler when Embarcadero decided to focus

• OCTAGRAM 3mo ago
  Delphi.NET was so much central project that 8 only supported .NET. Nothing else was ever needed as it seemed. Delphi.NET was 8, 2005, 2006 and 2007, then dropped. It was hosted in common RAD IDE and language was close match. Delphi Prism was bundled somewhere between 2009 and XE2, a 3rd party product, hosted in Visual Studio IDE and language was resembling, but not quite. Enough divergence to not make it possible sharing source text with native Delphi.
  • vintagedave 3mo ago
    (I work at RemObjects) - we've been working hard on reducing convergence recently, that is, still supporting our own Oxygene Pascal syntax but also accepting other variants of Pascal. We want it to be possible for someone to have a common source file as you suggest, much the same as you can with Delphi and FPC. It is possible today; we are working on the really esoteric syntax. Our 'Delphi Island' support also allows linking to BPLs. And we have our own IDE (for multiple platforms), as well as living inside VS.
  • throw-the-towel 3mo ago
    OTOH Delphi 8 flopped so hard that the next version brought back Win32 support.
    • OCTAGRAM 3mo ago
      It became a good tradition to release version of software with my favorite number in such a way everybody will hate it. Delphi 8, Windows 8