[lazarus] Has anyone else read this!!!!

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Curtis White wrote:

> Do you think that Borland may try to use some of the Java code from JBuilder to
> create the IDE?

I don't think so. The IDE is written completely in Delphi, and is used both for
C++Builder and Delphi, by using some defines and packages.


> If they did that, then most of the IDE work would already be
> done and they would just need to figure out a way to convert the VCL. As I
> understand it, most of JBuilder is already written in Java.
> 
> It would be really slow (probably), but it would be one way they could get this
> thing out the door by early next year.  Why would they spend a bunch of time
> porting a ton of Windows specific code over to Linux when they already have
> most everything in the IDE done in Java already in JBuilder. And they have
> already released their JRE for Linux that is supposed to be pretty fast. 
> 
> I bet they can already almost run the JBuilder IDE under Linux now. So if they
> could just make it run the Delphi compiler under Linux, then they would have it
> almost done already.

You forget the RTL & VCL: they'd still need porting to Linux.

Michael.