May 19, 2017
Over the last week, Embarcadero published a new official RAD Studio roadmap and an additional blog post with Product Manager comments and further information.
Over the last week, Embarcadero published a new official RAD Studio roadmap and an additional blog post with Product Manager comments and further information (including a section of mine).
Here are the links, in case you missed one of those:
https://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16519-rad-studio-roadmap-may-2018
https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/may-2017-roadmap-commentary-from-product-management
Does Z-Order support make FireMonkey rendering of text in RTL languages such as Arabic on Android display correctly? thanks
Hei, Marco. Thank you for sharing the roadmap! Regarding to C++ compiler. In my opinion it is great C++ IDE, but it is suffering of low compatibility with many widely used libraries. And seems it is one of the goals for next year - add support of 3th party libraries. Could you share list of libraries you are going to support? I understand it is just a plan and it may change, but it is nice to know a direction we go. For me OpenCV is number one. Is it in the list?
Are you going to fix and (significantly) improve performance of code insight in the IDE? That would really help a lot! Thanks in advance!
In the RAD Studio Roadmap, Research Areas page, you should add WebAssembly (WASM). This could become an interesting Delphi compile target in ~2019.
Personally I am a little bit disappointing with the new road map, mainly because it seems that we will have at least to wait 3 years to have Delphi running on Linux ARM. The second disappointment is that there no annoncement for an add-on for the pro version for getting Delphi working on linux. I do learn at home and transfer things I did learn quite often in the compony I am working in. I will not buy a enterprise version for learning at home, Embarcadero university program is not me. So what should I do? drop my subscription? The only option left is to run Delphi on a Win10 LattePanda board with the Pro version of Delphi. The learning potential for learning something useful is low, so I will not do it. LattePanda is just a windows PC without the keyboard and the screen. The price and energy consumption limit also the kind of product you can develop with these things. Then was thinking ok, forget about SOC let learn some framework for computer vision or deep learning with c++ builder. There are so many things interesting going on, with c++ builder and c++ builder Starter is free! But actually we cannot compile for example OpenCV with c++ Builder. At least it seems that Embarcadero is aware of the problem, and we can see things related to the problem on the road map. But yes it will take time, 1 or two year I presume. So what can I do to use these amazing open source frameworks for computer vision and deep learning in Delphi or C++ builder. Well in fact there is a way. I did download Codeblocks, build a small DLL and load it in Delphi/C++ builder. Passing data and events between Delphi/C++ builder and the DLL build Codeblocks works well, so I presumes I could also put some OpenCV stuff in the DLL and use them from within Delphi or C++ Builder. Codeblocks adds some characters to the name of the function exported but in fact there is a tool that is delivered with Delphi (tdump.exe) and it was not really a problem. The only problem was to know that Tdump.exe exist! So Ok there is a way, but it is far from being a good solution because the process is time consuming and I think not so well documented by Embarcadero. So the overall value of my subscription is for me today rather low. But Ok, I am ready to wait 2 to 3 year but please, improve the product documentation and value in the "Interoperability" area!
I can't figure why embarcadero doesn't see webassembly as big opportunity for Delphi and C Builder. With little effort they can beat concurency, they only need to port FireMonkey to webgl and support webassembly. With this aproach we will have the same language on server and web browser. In that case will be possible to use existing Firemonkey form designer for designing web forms and this applications will be fast robust and gui will have same look and behaviour on diferent browsers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4E6oksar0
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