Hi, As Jonas pointed out in the FPC-Devel mailing list. Embarcadero thinks FPC is of high enough quality so they are using it to create there iOS (ARM) products. This is apparently an intermediate step until they build there own ARM compiler, but it's still good news for the FPC team.
http://delphimax.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/delphi-64bit-os-x-and-iphone-native/#comment-743 http://delphimax.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/delphi-64bit-os-x-and-iphone-native/#comment-749 On the flip side... ">> no VCL in MACOS why? Several reasons. but first, we did start out building a VCL for Mac – but killed it because VCL is really designed for Windows." -- Michael Swindell (Embarcadero Delphi developer) This confirms my thoughts I have had for a long time. VCL is just too Windows centric and is NOT a good basis for cross-platform development. With my recent experiments of Lazarus on Mac OS X, I have clearly noticed this too in Lazarus. The LCL experience under Mac OS X was terrible. Yes some things were contributed to very bad defaults in the IDE, but other things related to LCL were just bad. It doesn't look good or the same as "real" mac apps, doesn't behave the same etc... All Lazarus design goals of "native on each platform" is just not panning out. Sorry guys. There is hope though. Stop being so anal about "must be VCL compatible and nothing better". Stop cloning VCL and rather innovate. Come up with something better than VCL. Now the very bad news... Embarcadero bumped Linux further down the priority list. They feel Mac users are willing to pay for software and Linux users not [I think this is rubbish!]. So they are first tackling Mac OSX, then iOS, then Linux, then Android. -- Regards, - Graeme - -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
