Section 03 of 05
After Borland
CodeGear in 2006, Embarcadero in 2008, FireMonkey in 2011 — and the parallel story of Free Pascal and Lazarus carrying the language onto everything else.
A reference on Object Pascal, the Delphi line and the libraries built on it.
Section 03 of 05
CodeGear in 2006, Embarcadero in 2008, FireMonkey in 2011 — and the parallel story of Free Pascal and Lazarus carrying the language onto everything else.
Sold in 2006, Sold Again in 2008Two transactions, in 2006 and 2008, and a compiler that kept shipping through both of them.After Borland
Kylix, and What Happened When Delphi Went to LinuxKylix put the form designer on Linux in 2001 and did not find the developers Borland had counted on.After Borland
Free Pascal and Lazarus Kept Moving When Borland StoppedA second compiler and a second IDE, developed in parallel and answerable to no vendor's roadmap.After Borland
FireMonkey Was Not the VCL and That Was the PointIntroduced in 2011 beside the VCL rather than over it — a second framework, deliberately kept separate.After Borland
Fifteen Years of Keeping the Compiler AliveFifteen years of releases weighed against an undertaking not to break code that already compiled.After Borland
Oxygene and the Branch That Went to .NETObject Pascal syntax on a managed runtime: the same language with a different machine underneath it.After Borland