WHOO! *Happy dance*
Had to blog this first thing.
I have, in my hot little backpack, a two-CD set of the Diamondback Preview. They handed them out to everyone after the What’s New in Diamondback / Meet the Delphi Team session tonight. (Now aren’t you sorry you missed the con?)
New toy. Hehehe…
Yes, it’s beta, yes it’s going to do some crashing. But… refactoring, man. Find References. Sync Edit. Debugging .NET and Win32. Delphi and C# in the same project group. I’m going to have some serious fun with this thing, especially after I get back home.
Oh, and a note for the guys back home: The Diamondback Win32 compiler still supports old-style objects. So we could use this thing’s refactoring tools to migrate them to classes. How long have we been waiting for that?
Wheeee…
September 14th, 2004 at 6:25 am
Joe,
Sure, rub it in… I messed up and going to a rainy Boston this next week. Sounds like you are having too much fun.
Is there any ‘target date’ for the release of Diamondback? Has the ‘vision’ been set for Delphi beyond Diamondback?
September 14th, 2004 at 9:04 am
Target release dates have not been announced for Delphi "Diamondback". It’s a preview release.
Yes, we have been discussing Delphi directions beyond Diamondback. Joe White refers to "Whidbeyish Diamondback+1".
September 14th, 2004 at 11:00 am
When it comes to ‘vision’, I am reminded of the ‘Meet the Delphi Team’ in 2003. A question was asked ‘Why should we keep developing in Delphi?’ with very little response except for Danny Thorpe. The silence of Borland management was chilling. Now I do realize the passion for Delphi that runs through the veins of Danny and others Delphi programmers (including myself), but that does not keep our management from telling us to move to C#. So my question of ‘vision’ more toward strategic reasons to stay with Delphi and not just technical details. Telling management that we can leverage legacy code is not a good enough reason or that Dx will support the next Window API. So my redefined question is: Did Borland present a ‘Why you should be using Delphi instead of C#’ and support that with a long term vision of Delphi for the companies currently using Delphi?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:11 am
GOOD
January 11th, 2007 at 9:13 am
messed up and going to a rainy Boston this next week. Sounds like you are having too much fun