Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by ealexhudson on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:41AM
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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 really.
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by pjmlp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:42AM
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> 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
Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by dfox on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:44PM
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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.
Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by squarefoot on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:49PM
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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!