CodeGear and roadmaps
We’ve been looking forward to Delphi Highlander — a Delphi for .NET 2.0 — since before it had a name. You can compile to .NET 2.0 with Delphi 2006 (and we do), but the IDE actively gets in your way, and you can’t use generics, which are the whole point of .NET 2.0 in the first place.
CodeGear’s “Borland [sic] Delphi Roadmap” still says that Highlander will [sic] be released in 2006. Way to keep your roadmap current, guys.
But the latest news is that the next release of Delphi will be strictly Win32. Apparently the next couple of releases won’t even have a .NET compiler.
And here I was hoping that they would actually ship what they’ve been promising us for over a year.
Silly me.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Yeah, it is pretty confusing to me as well. After waiting patiently for .NET 2.0 for more than a year since VS2005 had it, we are now getting these reports that the next Delphi will be Win32 focused. What is going on??
February 26th, 2008 at 7:41 am
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