Borland C++ Builder (2015)

Re:Borland C++ Builder (2015) by bitwize on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:45PM (#35604039)

Embarcadero is pretty much in the business of soaking customers locked into Borland's old products for as much as they're willing to pay, hence why the IDEs cost an arm and a leg while competitive products are relatively cheap or free.

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Re:Borland C++ Builder (2015) by pjmlp on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:37PM (#35605454)

Meanwhile, the only real C++ RAD alternative to C++ Builder in 25 years was C++/CX, killed by internal WinDev politics.

And maybe by .NET 9, all the kinds of Delphi workloads will be finally supported by Native AOT and low level coding capabilities.

All enterprise products cost an arm and a leg, and at that level it hardly matters, license costs aren't where usually project budgets get burned.

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Re:Borland C++ Builder (2015) by torbica on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @02:22PM (#35617805)

>And maybe by .NET 9

If I take look on roadmaps and apply developer velocity of MAUI, WinForms and WPF it will take many more versions.

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Re:Borland C++ Builder (2015) by bitwize on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:07PM (#35618508)

Avalonia is out there and works nicely. Looks like they're making a WPF compatibility layer.

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Re:Borland C++ Builder (2015) by torbica on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:13PM (#35618613)

Third party controls are simply not there yet. (Performant datagrids, comboboxes with complex layout etc)

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