You’ve seen the digital camera pictures of the Delphi / C++Builder Roadmap on different blog postings. You’ve read Danny Thorpe’s blog entry that explains the Delphi Roadmap 2005-2006. Below you will find a better quality bitmap of the roadmap slide taken from my presentation at the German Developer Conference 2005 (EKON 9). Click on the bitmap to display an even larger version of the bitmap.
Go Borland Delphi, C++Builder, and C#Builder!
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While Dexter will rock, it seems I won’t be able to use Borland’s Delphi/C++ for 64 bits programming for some time… That sucks!
Great information… A couple questions:
1. Will Dexter allow C# and VCL to be used togehter (I assume so), or does C# only allow use with Winforms for writing client apps?
2. Why is native 64-bit so far out? I agree with Eric, that I had hoped it would be sooner than that. The perception I have is that my code "should just compile" with a 64-bit processor, assuming I didn’t assume size of pointer = size of int. I would like to be able to provide 64-bit compiles of my apps sooner rather than later.
Thanks, I’ll link my blog to it. And yes, this image is much, much better
Looking forward to the upcoming releases of our beloved IDE.
Is there any plan to let VCL.NET, dbWeb.NET, dbGo.NET and other Borland components for .NET be free from Win32 API? Today there is a lot of dependencies on Win32 platform (I think using PInvoke) … Is there a plan to be free from this Old API on .NET environment? Is there any plan of supporting GNU/Linux in the future?
CLX is dead… how sad.
I can wait until 2008 for a new IDE/compiler/linker for BCB. I currently use C++ Builder 5 Pro SP1 and I can’t see me needing to go beyond this in the next 2 or 3 years. I think people are too quick to jump on under-developed development technologies.
Mark, I think people are too *slow* to jump onto newer technologies. You simply cannot compare the productivity and quality of tools written 5 years ago compared to those just coming out today. If you use the new stuff, there may be some hiccups, but once you get past those, they allow developement at a much faster pace. If you are 3-5 years behind the curve, then you are losing the integral across time of the productivity difference across your entire career and/or times the number of your colleagues. The difference is staggering, in my opinion.
At our company, we just "caught up" and cannot believe what we have been missing. I personally regret having taken such a conservative approach in the past. Human effort is so precious that it should not be wasted with mundane tasks that have since been automated/solved in newer tools.
One thing that seems to be forgotten here, is the future of Kylix.
While borland may have jumped the gun on Linux, or gotten a better deal (wakeup call?) from M$ in creating kylix - i believe that that the Linux marked has become a better marked now.
I never thought about linux earlier - but if i have to choose between .net and native linux, the jump to linux is easy. I did not spend 6 years of delphi coding to throw away my knowledge of the VCL.
Get Linux back on track - or even better, start building for the mac!
Delphi has always been my language of choice and i look forward for better releases
Like to see more on the future of Kylix
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