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Four Humble Ideas for Embarcadero

Author: NickHodges I hereby humbly offer the following four suggestions to improve the Delphi product and community. Acquire the Assets of DevJet Have you guys seen the stuff done by DevJet?  This is some seriously excellent work.  They have two main projects — Documentation Insight and Code Insight Plus — that are both excellent, polished, and incredibly useful.  Code Insight Plus is worth…
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C++ Builder 10.2.3 - CMake and Ninja Command-Line Support

Introduction CMake is a popular C++ build tool. RAD Studio 10.2.3 Tokyo provides support for building CMake projects on the command line using RAD Studio compilers. 10.2.3 also specifically supports using Ninja with CMake, allowing for very fast parallel builds. This…
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New in 10.2.3: Using CMake with Ninja

One big new feature in 10.2.3 is support for building with CMake. If you haven’t already, read the previous two posts: introduction to CMake and building with Windows, and building for iOS and Android. Today I’d like to cover using CMake generators, and specifically…
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C++ Quality in 10.2.3

Every RAD Studio release, we focus on what we call QPS: Quality, Performance, Stability.  Recent releases of C++Builder have included: 10.2.0: Lots of work on our linker; improved codegen and optimizations; and debugging improvements (minimizing debug info size, better…
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New in 10.2.3: CMake Support for iOS and Android

We’ve introduced some great new features for C++Builder in 10.2.3.  Last week, I wrote about CMake support for our compilers. That post covered what CMake is, and how to use it for Windows, both Win32 and Win64.  If you haven’t read it, please do; it’s worth reading…
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RAD Studio and Internet Message Format

Introduction The RFC-2822 standard specifies a syntax for text messages that are sent between computer users, within the framework of “electronic mail” messages.  The RFC-2822 specifies lines should be no longer than 78 characters, and the MIME spec RFC-2045…
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New in 10.2.3: CMake Support

A very exciting feature in C++Builder 10.2.3 is support for using CMake with our compilers.  Let’s dig in! This post is the first in a series on CMake, and will cover: What CMake is How to write a CMakeLists.txt file How to build a project on Windows What is…