Even though they "announced" it's release, not their intention to, I
knew that is what is was, however I think the reason so many of us are
frustrated by an announcement like this is that it's the same old thing
again! Borland's ideas on Marketing seem to be aimed at the kind of hype
that you throw out at stockholder's meetings, and NOT in actually doing
anything to get their products into the hands of the people who use them.
That quote was right out of a similar statement made about Delphi 2005, and
it doesn't mean anything more today than it did then!
I love Delphi, but I had to wait almost 6 full months before I could
even begin doing any serious work with Delphi 2005, and as for Delphi 8,
well that one never even got fired up for one project! The people who
actually use these tools can easily see past the hype and fanfare, and it is
something we have all learned to deal with no matter what products we're
buying, but there must be something behind the hype first! Let's face the
cold hard truth. If you are a Win32 Pascal developer only, Delphi is
getting to be too much to handle, too difficult to use, and too expensive to
buy! Delphi stopped being Delphi after D7!
I understand their need to move toward the all-in-one IDE like
Microsoft's, and I would have no problem with that at all IF Delphi came
with an integrated configuration manager that allowed you to setup and use
just what you want without all the excess baggage weighting you down. What
is really needed is a modular IDE that one can buy providing just for the
language(s) wanted, and the extras wanted. Add to it as wanted, but don't
force it on me! Especially things like ECO and Together!
And one of the things that really has me worried is this common VCL
they've mentioned only in passing. The Delphi VCL is great, but will they
be writing it in Pascal or C++ or C# or some other incarnation of .NET?
They certainly are not going to release separate source versions for each
language, so I worry that I may end up not even being able to read it unless
I'm proficient in another language! This is an important question we all
need an answer to!
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It's a press release not a launch.
It's called marketing. There will no doubt be many follow-ups with
specifics.
> It's not Delphi anymore, it's the Borland
> Application Studio!
No it isn't and who cares if it isn't named Delphi anymore. It Borland
Developer Studio. It has Delphi, C# and C++ personalities.
Just like Visual Studio has C#, C++ and VB.
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