Comments on: What next for Embarcadero Delphi? Roadmap with Mac, Linux support published.

By: franz

franz — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:53:57 +0000

now Delphi 64 BIT is here !!!!!, with Mac support, first test are looking very promissing

By: Marcos Guerra

Marcos Guerra — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:49:54 +0000

Lack of direction, or trying to shot in everything that moves.
The end result will be bankrupt.
For example, why the idea of compiling for MAC? They should know that Apple primary tool is Cocoa/Objective-C and all other tools are deprecated unless they have bridges to Cocoa (Ruby or Phyton have, but you need to know Cocoa as well). Existing XCode compiles to 64-bit because new MACs are all 64-bit and in a few years time 32-bit applications will be outnumbered. Where does Delphi fit here? Is delphi going to compile for Carbon which has their days counted?

By: CX

CX — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:53:56 +0000

Nice to hear that Linux and MAC OS will be supported!!! Very good idea !!! But the question is: when??? I hope this will be soon. IDE is great for RAD development of application interfaces, but there is lack of support for other OS. I hope this will change soon!

By: farcodev

farcodev — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:59:38 +0000

At least when Delphi will be 64 bits and Linux compliant, Lazarus/Freepascal (which has ALREADY that) will be far ahead…

By: Wchris

Wchris — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:06:20 +0000

I think like you, embarcadero is not doing enough. I don’t say they do not work hard, i’m sure they do, but they miss the key advantage they could have in the battle. delphi ;net was a mistake, but prims is not the solution because it requires nearly as much job to switch to prims then learn c#, so développers will leave the boat and go to c# or java;
if the problem with delphi.net was the big changes Ms made to .net, then the evident solution should be to write their own C# semicompiled code, their own java, and call it HERACLES !
This way nobody would make unwanted “big changes”, they would masterise the virtual machine, be cross platform, allow us to webify existing apps in a nutshell, be 100% compatible with delphi and all browser .. etc .. only advantages.

I’m sure Ingeneers would love to work on a new virtual machine.
And you know what, oracle just buyed sun, there are probably high level ingeneers who worked on java leaving sun now … but ok it would cost money to hire them.

money is the key, and that’s why whe ha the incompatible delphi prims, because it’s cheap.

just my 5 cents.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:41:19 +0000

Yes as Dario says not enough compelling arguments and any good features have been missed as devs have been migrating to c# for years. Ive been a Delphi dev since D1 and actually still use it today, and only D7 which can still generate fast and lightweight executables. Whilst the cross platform feature is compelling I’m not sure its enough to tempt people back. I remember, bought and used Kylix when it was released. The problem was that lots of people ‘wanted’ cross platform ability but when the product was released this ‘interest’ never actually result in lots of sales.

As for montouch as above, unless it generates objective C and bundles it into an XCode project for compiling, code signing and building within XCode it will violate the TOS of the SDK.

By: Dario Fumagalli

Dario Fumagalli — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:11:01 +0000

Not too little, but too late. Way too late.

We have to switch to C# today just not to fall behind the curve, figures waiting for years and years.

By: Kyle Miller

Kyle Miller — Tue, 18 May 2010 05:59:52 +0000

I believe their iPhone/iPad strategy is to have Delphi Prism and Mono cover that base.

Nonetheless, this is a good thought and something to ponder.

“But there are other ways to do cross-platform now – Silverlight, Flash, web applications – and I wonder if the time for this has passed.”

By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:59:55 +0000

For me this roadmap is not offering anything extra. I sure do hope they will not drop the Apple and Linux thing like they did in the past with Kylix and .NET (inc. VCL.NET) wasting themselfs and their customers a lot of time/money. But this time it won’t affect me, cause I am not buying it.

By: David Champion

David Champion — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:58:49 +0000

It took a long time for the roadmap to be revised. Embacadero are coming across as a better managed company than Borland et al. and I’m happy that there is more consistency. No apparent knee jerk reactions. Shifts in delivery dates were more to do with Code Gear finding the resources to implement the plan and too eager to please the customer.
I do expect Embaradero to deliver more or less on the current plans. Growing the company the way they are doing is too slow though and it would be better to grow through acquisition. Its not like they don’t have a willing investor. Personally, I would like to see a more aggressive strategy that finds matching technologies. For example, I think DevExpress would be an excellent fit. Merger/Cash purchase someone needs to kick butt.