[Lazarus] RAD Studio XE4 Released?

[Michael Schnell]

On 04/25/2013 08:25 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> IMO we (FPC/Lazarus) should be prepared for providing a new home for 
> desparate Delphi coders, ...
I think the current state in fact would offer a nice home for them, if 
there would not be the Unicode mess, that only will not take them aback 
when Delphi New Strings are fully supported (on all platforms) (and 
hopefully cleaned from some Delphi quirks and enhanced by some obvious  
features lacking in Delphi such as "RawWorsdStrings", RAWDwordString" 
and "CompletelyDynamic" String type variants ).

>  Failing to encourage this move will force most current Delphi coders 
> to use better supported development environments, most likely C#.

I don't think that it's viable to think about converting to C#. While it 
(being created by the same person)  in fact is a nice Variant of Delphi, 
I don't believe

And make them happy users of Eclipse ?!?!?!?! (I do use Eclipse for 
embedded projects in ANSI C: It's great, but needs a steep learning curve.)

-Michael