Article 43308 Subject Re: Delphi Project X Cross GUI on embarcadero.public.delphi.non-technical

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From:

Dejan Stanic

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To:

Loren Szendre

Subject:

Re: Delphi Project X Cross GUI

Newsgroup:

embarcadero.public.delphi.non-technical

06-Jan-2010

Re: Delphi Project X Cross GUI

> {quote:title=Loren Szendre wrote:}{quote}
> The answer, of course, is that I won't be able to. It took DevEx many 
> months to fully adapt to Unicode! It would take them 3 centuries to 
> adapt all that code that is ultimately based on the WinAPI, and make 
> that library work the same on Windows, Linux and Mac.

100% agreed.

3rd party tooling will lag (if ever coming) and without it, there's not that much advantage Delphi can offer. Richness of 3rd party offerings (be it free or commercial) was always the strong reason for choosing Delphi (as it was for Turbo Pascal (my first one was on CP/M)). I'm afraid that that market is diminishing and remaining (although vocal) users are begining to sound like retired Cobol programmers(*).

LP,
Dejan

FYI: Logic operators AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, and LIKE do not have to be capitalized