Comments on: Embarcadero RAD Studio 2009 is done http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1079-embarcadero-rad-studio-2009-is-done.html Tech writing blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:46:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gary http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1079-embarcadero-rad-studio-2009-is-done.html/comment-page-1#comment-115384 Gary Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:03:18 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1079-embarcadero-rad-studio-2009-is-done.html#comment-115384 Yep I remember Kylix, I bought it and it wasnt a bad product. I think the problem was Borland went to the market and said "Who want's Delphi for Linux?" and everyone went "Hell, yeah that would be cool" so they built and came to sell it and found the enthusisasm wasnt as great. As a commercial Delphi developer there wasn't any commercial leverage to be gained by selling Kylix apps which is something, despite all the M$ bashing remains true today. Personally I think for cross platform development we will see a continued rise in Javascript frameworks which offer true cross platform runtime, UI functionality approaching that of Win32 apps and no proprietry technology like Java or Flash. Yep I remember Kylix, I bought it and it wasnt a bad product. I think the problem was Borland went to the market and said “Who want’s Delphi for Linux?” and everyone went “Hell, yeah that would be cool” so they built and came to sell it and found the enthusisasm wasnt as great. As a commercial Delphi developer there wasn’t any commercial leverage to be gained by selling Kylix apps which is something, despite all the M$ bashing remains true today.

Personally I think for cross platform development we will see a continued rise in Javascript frameworks which offer true cross platform runtime, UI functionality approaching that of Win32 apps and no proprietry technology like Java or Flash.

]]> By: Gary Sims http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1079-embarcadero-rad-studio-2009-is-done.html/comment-page-1#comment-115285 Gary Sims Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:11:16 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1079-embarcadero-rad-studio-2009-is-done.html#comment-115285 Do you remember Kylix? I thought it was a great idea... Today it looks like Mono is providing a chance of cross platform development for Windows, OS X and Linux. Gary Do you remember Kylix? I thought it was a great idea… Today it looks like Mono is providing a chance of cross platform development for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Gary

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