Offering some tips and suggestions you can consider to help the compiler be faster and consume less memory using the current version of Delphi.
Over the last couple of years, Embarcadero has put a significant effort into optimizing the Delphi Object Pascal compilers’ performance and reducing its memory usage, so that our customers with large applications can have a better experience…
Developer Interview: Kiriakos Vlahos, Creator of PyScripter, Developer & Maintainer of "Python for Delphi" Libraries
November 23, 2022
Kiriakos Vlahos is a software engineer with a PhD in Management Science and more than 40 years of experience in the industry. He is the creator of PyScripter, a Python IDE built with Delphi that is hugely popular among both Delphi and Python developers, and the developer and…
I always enjoy coming down to Brazil for their annual Embarcadero Developer Conference. Unfortunately travel restrictions moved the event virtual for the last couple years, but it was back to an in person event this year. Previous in person events had around 400 attendees…
Solving an interesting issue upgrading a project from Classic to Clang.
A recent blog comment asked for help where a Clang project was linking to vcle.lib, but the library did not exist in the Clang linking path (lib/win32c/release): it’s present only for the classic compiler in lib/win32/release. (Note the C in win32c, meaning Clang.) Why? If you see this error, how do you resolve it and…
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Low code app development is the phrase of the moment right now. There are even some tools which fall into the low code category which use artificial intelligence to help develop solutions better although not without some controversary. Yet, the terms used are not clearly definitive, which can lead to confusion. This article will first define a few key phrases such as citizen developer, visual apps…
A “Hello World” app might not be helpful to users. But it is precious to a developer. Because as Morpheus said: “There is a difference between knowing the path & walking the path.” Making your first app is like walking the path. It clears your…
These days desktop applications have become quite popular due to many reasons such as better performance. Even though there are many platforms nowadays, Windows stands out from the others. Therefore most developers tend to first release their application to Windows. With the…
There is a fascinating conversation between Neo and the Oracle in The Matrix Reloaded movie. Neo asks the oracle that if she already knows, how can he make a choice? She cleverly replies because you have already made your choice. You only came to me to try to understand why? Thus, it is strange that we often pick things emotionally and then logically persuade ourselves that we have chosen the best…
