The C++ Builder Community Edition has been updated to version 13, giving eligible users free access to the modern Win64 toolchain. It is designed for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and small teams that meet the Community Edition license requirements. Review the license agreement for complete eligibility and usage terms.
Clang 20 as the Foundation
RAD Studio CE upgrades the Win64 Modern…
Hi everyone. We found that we needed to update our instructions on how to make Kai and Claude work together. We also clarified a few steps. You may find that in your version Kai still says “you need to log in to Claude” – as long as you follow the steps in…
It’s been an exciting week for us here at Embarcadero. This week, we officially released Kai, transforming RAD Studio into an agentic development environment, pairing best-in-class code suggestions with an AI agent that can generate, build, fix, and evolve your…
The ongoing discussion about the future of C++ is characterized by two closely connected themes: complexity and safety. Both concepts are frequently oversimplified in public discourse, often reduced solely to memory management. Yet safety encompasses far more: functional…
Ignorance, Surface, and Deep Architecture
Why Modern C++ Keeps Getting MisunderstoodA blog post about modern C++ architecture, the role of ranges, concepts, RAII, coroutines, and compile time structures, and about why many developers are dismissed by superficial criticism…
Rethinking C++: Architecture, Concepts, and Responsibility
Why C++Builder 13 is more than just a version bump – and why we must begin to truly understand C++.
An article about C++Builder – and yet about much more
With the release of C++Builder 13 and support for…
Embarcadero is very happy to announce RAD Studio 13 Florence along with Delphi 13 and C++Builder 13 is available to customers starting today. The RAD Studio 13 Florence release offers a 64-bit version of the RAD Studio IDE, an updated C++Builder Clang compiler, Delphi…
Coming in Florence: TitleBar Styling and Scrollable ActionMenus in VCL
September 1, 2025
Continuing the series of blog on new features coming in the next release of Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio, I’d like to highlight some of the work we have done in the Visual Component Library (VCL), which is today the most comprehensive component/class library for…
We’re very pleased to announce the release of version 8 of the Konopka Signature VCL Controls (formerly Raize Components). Since acquiring the component library from Raize Software in 2015, there have been a few updates, but the library was starting to show its age. In…
Wow! We asked you to help choose the name of RAD Studio 13 and clearly it captured your imagination. You voted in your thousands to choose between our shortlist finalists of Florence or Syracuse. Both cities are absolutely stunning examples of the best in architecture as…
