[Lazarus] RAD Studio XE4 Released?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On 2013-04-25 07:25, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Well, slow and memory hungry may be, but portability is achieved to 
>> every .NET enabled platform.
> 
> WinForms is not 100% portable via Mono (last I checked). I wouldn't go
> that route either because Microsoft will be on your case when it suits
> them - and probably just when your product becomes successful.

Neither Mono nor DotGNU are implementations of whatever MS understands 
as .NET. The closed source .NET library prevents to use non-MS 
implementations for running .NET applications. CIL without .NET is less 
than FPC without Lazarus (or msegui...), a VM without a RTL :-(


>> But it isn't true that the new IDE is written in .NET,
> 
> I didn't mean the whole IDE. Just parts: help system, editor, form
> designer, language tool in editor (like what CodeTools is). But that
> sure makes it about 70% of what an IDE is.
> 
> 
>> Failing to encourage this move will force most current Delphi coders to 
>> use better supported development environments, most likely C#.
> 
> Java seems way more lucrative to me... The Java eco-system is massive,
> and that also opens the doors to Android (which is also Java and the
> biggest mobile platform). But that's just me thinking out loud.

In the Embarcadero groups I only read VS/C# as an alternative, nobody 
claims to move to Java.

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