> Timothy Ha wrote:
> > I would like to know your opinion about the new initiative called
> > OpenDelphi.org
>
> That's plainly nonsense. As you can see, even the lazarus and free
> pascal contributors are little compared with other OSS projects. The OSS
> idea is very weak in the delphi/object pascal world. Even worse, a lot
> parts of delphi are written in C++ e.g. the compiler (afaik). So to
> contribute to an Open Delphi, it would be required that people are
> interested in OSS and that they know C++. Even more, considering the
> development "speed" of the delphi compiler the last years, it's evident
> that the code of the compiler is completely unmaintainable else Borland
> would have added a lot of features which isn't the case.
I have read that is a fact that even the Delphi IDE "kernel" is written in C++.
I don't know what they consider the "kernel" (probably the BPL's that power lots
of the IDE) but I'd say a lot of the IDE is powered off the "kernel" in addition
to the compiler which is also written in
C/C++ and just some GUI display parts are written in Delphi in the Delphi32.exe
file.
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