Delphi 2016 Roadmap The RAD Studio roadmap for 2016, including plans for Delphi and C++Builder for the current year, is now public The RAD Studio roadmap for 2016, including plans for Delphi and C++Builder for the current year, is now public. You can find it at: http://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16211-embarcadero-rad-studio-2016-product-approach-and-roadmap-2 As you can see, there is a lot of ongoing development and some great releases coming soon. The best way to get them? Buy 10 Seattle now (unless you already have it) along with 1 year of Update Subscription. This is far from complete list of what's coming, and highlights only the main themes. If you are looking forward for other features, feel free to post your suggestions to Embarcadero Quality Portal or reach either myself or any of the other RAD Studio Product Managers. As always comments are welcome also here and on the community site, but no flames, please.

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Delphi 2016 Roadmap That all sounds good but is there any strategy for growing the Object Pascal ecosystem in general? A significant cost of using Delphi is the low number of Pascal-native libraries available relative to other programming languages. And it's not just library functionality. Some of the time you can find a library that does exactly what you want but its license is incompatible with your project so you can't use it. A bigger ecosystem would make more options available to everyone and make Delphi a more attractive option.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap When is it Spring, Summer. 'Fall' is that Autum and which month is that?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap As Gary pointed, the ecosystem is lagging behind. The compatibility breaks of the last years (ARC, ZBS...) have furthered the problem, by making the existing libraries unusable in the latest environments, even when they were not visual at all.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Gary, that's close to what I mentioned earlier. Delphi is good, but it's getting pushed into a niche market more and more. - high cost - small userbase Decrease the cost and the userbase will increase, which in turn will increase revenue. Keep increasing the cost, and the userbase will dwindle until it's down to the last few people who don't have any viable alternatives to switch to. I wish they'd look at some better pricing plans. Especially for the single user licenses / home users / students. So the next generation of delphi devs will be able to start early.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Looking forward to more Windows 10 VCL Controls. I would also like to see the IDE updated earlier - the form designer and other parts still show a Windows 7 look even on Windows 10. And the ribbon control needs modernizing to the Office 2016 look.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap so it's 2016, and STILL no RTL\BiDi support?????? the last Delphi i bought was XE. i don't see ANY reason to buy another Delphi until it will have Right-To-Left - BiDi support in Firemonkey !!! the roadmap says : "Native support for Utf8String type on all platforms" well, i'm sorry but that DOESN'T mean REAL BiDi support! so again : NO RTL - NOT BUYING !!!

Delphi 2016 Roadmap I'd really like to see Linux ARM support, along with the Linux x64 Server support: http://blog.therealoracleatdelphi.com/2015/12/baking -object-pascal-and-rapsberry-pie.html Preferably supporting Yocto built distributions. Besides that, I hope that Idera are serious about their intensions and investments into Delphi. My concern is that "fewer major releases", are management words for less investments into the product.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Great to see new features, Specially Linux support, keep it up. Its will be great if you guys can introduce a new language to the stack, Inspired from C#, Java or Swift, Most youngsters consider BEGIN END as OLD (even though its not ) Specially Students.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap I know that people complain about everything. But we must to see the good points of the news too. Delphi Seatle was good version of Delphi (XE + were a little lost). And this new version seems to be good too. For example the support of Linux is a very waited feature. Thanks for that. Sure that there are a lot of points that the community cares about. But not everything is on Marco's responsibility (I think), as example, the pricing plan of Delphi. And be sure, no matter the way Idera choose to pricing Delphi, some will like some will not. For me for example, signature is the best option, you will always have the top IDE available (I know abou the thirdy components), will need to pay just as you need to use. It helps to increase the users base (sure, if the price is compatible to the market). The perpetual license is a little dangerous for systems that keeps on development. If I'd like to buy Seatle now for example, and have no much money available, I'll wait until next version to have linux support. It's not good for me that don't use a good IDE and it's not good to Idera that don't sell it's products. Anyway, I hope the best for our IDE! Find uses for Delphi: https://github.com/rfrezino/RFindUnit

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Hi, What about Firemonkey RightToLeft BiDi support?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Right now FireMonkey controls lack any property for supporting BiDi text and right-to-left languages. Please add BiDi support for android and IOS. what dose "Native support for Utf8String type on all platforms" mean? thanks

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Nice to know you failed to understand ARC makes no sense in the server world where you want to fully control memory management to ensure your application doesn't blow out available memory under heavy load - if you're going the native code route. If I want something able to eat my server memory I prefer Java, thank you. At least there is much broader support. Forget ARC, it's good for simple client side applications, it's an hindrance on server application with high scalability needs.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap KK: "Its will be great if you guys can introduce a new language to the stack" I think introducing a brand new language would be the worse possible option. The ecosystem for Object Pascal is small, but at least there is one. A new language has to start from zero and unless it's open source and freely available it simply won't grow when there are so many established languages to choose from. As an example, the Rust and Swift user-bases are small but they are growing because both languages are freely available to everyone. Swift is growing much faster than Rust because Apple is promoting it, whereas Rust is mostly promoted by Mozilla. KK: "Most youngsters consider BEGIN END as OLD (even though its not ) Specially Students." Yes, the Object Pascal language itself and the Object Pascal ecosystem don't get enough promotion and consequently many developers consider it a dead language, which is a shame. IDERA\Embarcadero don't seem to be that interested in helping to enlarge the Object Pascal ecosystem at the moment so it's up to Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org) to make it happen (if it happens at all).

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Is there any strategy to support Persian language on android?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap I keep refreshing this page hoping marco comes in with a solution to all the above arguments and fears,. but so far it's just more complaints and requests. :(

Delphi 2016 Roadmap To increase the Object Pascal ecosystem, I suggest that Embarcadero can try to promote some kind of MOOC course based on Delphi. Today are plenty of them around internet, and courses about mobile get a lot of attention. Young people will be the future users, and if them don't know about Delphi, the product ecosystem will be decrease.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap when we Delphi for web?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Thomas, > I keep refreshing this page hoping Marco comes in with > a solution to all the above arguments and fears The road map is a company road map, so I don't have much to add. Other than we are listening to our customers feedback. Pushing back Delphi to younger developers or expanding the ecosystem are initiatives that don't belong to the product technical road map, but more to the business planning. Sure, there are connections, but up to a given point. Anyway, I fully disagree the ecosystem is lagging behind, there are still many third party vendors and open source libraries available for Delphi. Old classic ones and new offerings as well.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Marco Cantu: "Anyway, I fully disagree the ecosystem is lagging behind, there are still many third party vendors and open source libraries available for Delphi." If the Object Pascal ecosystem is healthy then how is it that Swift, a new language starting from zero that's been around for just 19 months, is already rated at over half of Object Pascal's rating on the TIOBE index for February 2016: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html And that's even after Object Pascal's rating was given a boost to get it to 10th place: http://chapmanworld.com/2016/02/09/delphi-jumps-to-10th-place-on-the-tiobe-index/ I think it's quite likely that Swift will overtake Object Pascal by the end of this year. When people see these trends it just re-enforces their opinion that Object Pascal is a dying (or even a dead) language and that's not a good outcome for Delphi.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Gary, according to the same reasoning JavaScript is doomed because Delphi has almost reached it in Tiobe index. Let's get real. It is true that Swift is a nice language on the rise. It is backed by a rather large company, you know. But for now it can be used only a very few platforms. -Marco

Delphi 2016 Roadmap A programming language need to support all major platform and linux is one of them. So it is great be able to use Delphi to developp application that target Linux. Today you can get a Rasperry Zero for 5 euro. Linux systems are therefore perfect for IoT especially if you need something you cannot do with a microcontroller. Some Linux distributions are free and you do not have the high price tag of the windows operating system. If you deploy a large numbers of system/server, it is a significant advantage to deploy on linux system. Today are iOS/Androis/OSx rapid moving targerts. Windows is today a rapid moving target as well. Linux Kernel seems much more stable. An exe build with Delphi about 10 years ago still run on windows today, and that is great. Nevertheless we are relying on Microsoft decision that may change in future. Linux being not own by a company but much more community/users driven, we will not be less subject the consequence of Microsoft decision for our product

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Good news! I am looking forward to the Linux support. Thanks to Marco for the great work he is doing!

Delphi 2016 Roadmap I'd like to see Apple Watch supported. Apple has set this up to require development of Watch app as part of your iPhone app.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Marco Cantu: "according to the same reasoning JavaScript is doomed because Delphi has almost reached it in Tiobe index" The problem is more that JavaScript scores highly on all such indexes. Delphi only rates anywhere near the top on TIOBE. Swift is moving up into the top rankings in multiple indexes. Delphi is not. Marco Cantu: "But for now it can be used only a very few platforms." Exactly. Even with that limitation TIOBE already rates it as 1.3%.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap what dose "Native support for Utf8String type on all platforms" mean?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap What about real right to left support on fmx controls in next version

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Hello Mr. Cantu, Let RAD Team spend more time on fixing and enhancing Parallel Programming Library during 2016. It's promising lib, but it needs a lot of work/polishing. We miss cancellation tokens, we suffer from unresolved issues in QP. Regards, Petar

Delphi 2016 Roadmap What is the fference between Linux support and Kylix

Delphi 2016 Roadmap wouldnt be a app-update from pc to android device via wlan/wifi like appInventor has, a reall big deal for Delphi? would easy up things a lot ;-)

Delphi 2016 Roadmap No one likes Intraweb! * I wold like to choose the kind of deployment for Intraweb exactly like building VCL/FMX on choosing platform source, like: Application, Isapi, etc... * Also easy way to set page link "www.mypage.com/something". * Beautiful style designer like Embarcadero did to HTML5 Builder.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap At least an editor that is close in productivity features to IntelliJ. The one Delphi has is the worst among development tools.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Why is there not a free version of Delphi? We need a bigger community.. and communities don't start when the entry level to even try it costs so much. Whats encouraging the next wave of developers to try Delphi? I know it's amazing, but the price is too much of a restriction. Have a free version so we can get some young blood and a large community again.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap What about Firemonkey RightToLeft BiDi supports ? And can we write Arabic/Hebrew in Firemonkey updates till now !?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap RTL language still not support?!!!!!! why? i dont know why this weakness is not important to you?

Delphi 2016 Roadmap Hi I just wondering if there are any plans that allow FireMonkey compiling x64 in Mac OSx Regards Miquel T.

Delphi 2016 Roadmap I teach a course using Delphi (how my chess apps are created) and I've had students refuse to sign up because Firemonkey does not support Arabic. On the plus side, I was paid to fix a chess VCL app that still supports BiDi text.





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