October 17, 2024
RAD Studio 12.2 Patch #1 provides quality improvements to the 12.2 release, focused on RAD Studio IDE, FireMonkey, the bcc64x Win64 Modern toolchain, RAD Server, and the 64-bit versions of the Delphi compiler.
The patch also fixes a package binary compatibility issue that prevents using packages built in RAD Studio 12.2 in RAD Studio 12.1 and 12.0, mostly affecting third-party…
The Untapped Potential of AI in Desktop Applications: “Power-Charging” Our Delphi Community
October 7, 2024
AI is taking over—not like “Terminator,” at least not yet, but by revolutionizing everything. AI is everywhere today, from business processes to consumer apps, and from spaceships to your toaster. And while everyone’s buzzing about AI in the cloud and AI in web apps…
C++Builder and RAD Studio 12.2 bring a fantastic feature for C++: full CMake support for the new Win64 Modern toolchain.
It’s available in GetIt now, and it comes with some amazing demos. You can build VCL apps, FMX apps, packages, DLLs, console apps, as you’d expect……
RAD Studio 12.2, released on September 12, 2024, has changed the development game again. How? With features never before seen in the IDE, like embedded access to AI-assisted coding, and with performance enhancements like 64-bit compilers that enable you, the developer, to…
While the most relevant new features were in other product areas, there are a few enhancements in the Delphi Run Time Library (o RTL) that we thing is worth pointing out.
New TParallelArray Class
There is a new TParallelArray class in the System.Threading unit that enables…
We have a great productivity feature in Delphi and C++Builder 12.2: focus mode, also known as ‘zen mode’.
A few months ago when we released version 12.1, we added split editor views. This was the most radical change in the IDE since the fully docked design in the…
Delphi LSP: 64-bit Power for Large Projects and Improved CodeInsight
September 20, 2024
The latest RAD Studio release introduces some noteworthy improvements to the Delphi Language Server Protocol (LSP), making life easier for developers working with large codebases. One of the biggest updates is the 64-bit version of the DelphiLSP engine, which eliminates…
As I wrote in the RAD Studio 12.2 announcement blog post, “leveraging AI LLMs for coding is becoming increasingly popular and the quality of these tools is getting better. For this reason, RAD Studio 12.2 introduces an open architecture for AI plugins, offering…
RAD Studio 12.2 brings several great improvements to C++. One of these is the completion of the new Windows 64-bit Modern toolchain with the addition of both using and creating dynamic packages (BPL files.)
Dynamic Package Consumption
When we released the new toolchain in…
RAD Studio Web Development Reimagined with the WebStencils Template Engine
September 18, 2024
RAD Studio 12.2 introduces WebStencils, a server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files, often called a template engine. This and its component can be used in WebBroker and RAD Server, but also for DataSnap and even in non-Web applications to produce…
