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July 11, 2013

Take the Delphi Developers Survey 2013

The yearly Delphi (and C++Builder) survey is now online. Let us know what you want, what we should improve, what we are doing good.

The yearly Delphi (and C++Builder) survey is now online. Let us know what you want, what we should improve, what we are doing good.

The survey (which takes about 20 minutes to complete) is available at www.surveymonkey.com/s/7DQ8KPS.

Like in past years, this is intended to get good roundup of where our current users are, which features they are using, which they'd want to see added, and much more. The survey covers a lot of areas of the product, from the trial experience to Mac requirements for iOS, includes questions on all libraries in the product and also third party tools we ship.

Given this is the largest roundup of Delphi and C++Builder developers, we are going to spend quite some time looking into the results. So, if you haven't done so already, set some time aside and fill in the survey.

Thanks in advance for your effort, by myself and the RAD Studio Product Management Team.

posted by marcocantu @ 9:57PM | 5 Comments [0 Pending]

5 Comments

Take the Delphi Developers Survey 2013

Hi Marco - I bet most users would agree that bugs
(esp. FireMonkey bugs) need to be fixed.

Also, if FireMonkey is all that Embarcadero claims it
to be, then we should also expect a multi-platform IDE
that would at least run on both on Mac and Windows. I
consider this a prerequisite for demonstrating
FireMonkey's maturity and usability. There are plenty
of examples: Eclipse, CodeLite, Code::Blocks, QT
Creator, ...

Comment by Navid on July 11, 23:51

Take the Delphi Developers Survey 2013

Dear Marco

If you realy want to do something for Delphi,then make 
it posible to be a leagal customer. I have 10 XE3 licens 
wich I can not use because EMB. f*** it all up. I have 
now twice tried to get to use my licens but so far with 
out luck, everytime I get stranded in the EMB "support" 

Jens Borrisholt

Comment by Jens Borrisholt on July 12, 05:51

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Nice one. The survey questions aren't completely out of 
touch with the real-world like was often the case in 
previous surveys (last time it happened was Nick 
Hodge's).

That said, the cloud questions center a bit too much IMHO 
around Amazon EC2 and Azure, and could probably have been 
kept a little more open. IME customers are a little bit 
wary of having their data in US-based clouds, so in 
practice we're using mostly "national" cloud providers 
and we fall under the "others" mentioned in this article 
f.i. (http://www.itwriting.com/blog/7513-real-world-
cloud-computing-adoption-pretty-slow-according-to-idg-
connect-survey.html).

FWIW that trend was there and well established before the 
PRISM/NSA revelations.

Comment by Eric [http://delphitools.info/] on July 12, 06:20

Take the Delphi Developers Survey 2013

 The survey asks an awful lot of questions that assume things without an 
option to say the question isn't applicable. So you're bound to get a lot of 
meaningless replies to lots of questions.

It's interesting there were so many questions about the only two cloud 
options supported in Delphi assuming everybody is interested in them, 
but just a couple to address the plethora of other clouds available.

DataSnap questions assumed the person has DataSnap. There wasn't 
even a question that asked, "Do you use DataSnap? Why or why not?" My 
question: why isn't DataSnap available as an addon for Professional SKUs?  
It also lumped DataSnap into JSON/REST protocols in some places, as if 
you'd only use DataSnap for these. Third-party solutions are far cheaper 
than having to pay the additional licensing and upgrade fees DataSnap 
requires on each release. Regardless, I've never worked anywhere that 
provides any build other than the Pro Edition to its programmers, so 
DataSnap has never been an option to even get to play with.

I found it strange that it kept asking questions about RAD Studio as if 
that was some kind of language product. It's a PACKAGING OPTION, like 
a SKU identifier.  Why do you care what I do with RAD Studio?  I program 
in Delphi and have no use for the other parts of RAD Studio.  So why are 
these questions even relevant?

Overall, the survey seemed designed to validate product packaging 
decisions that have already been made rather than trying to ferret out 
options that are not yet present.  Like, "What are your three biggest 
complaints about working with Delphi?" OMG, you don't want to ask 
THAT do you? You might get some really USEFUL info!

Comment by David S on July 13, 03:51

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 Sorry for my English...



Unfortunately, the questions are not very helpful. 
They assume from the fact that all features are in 
order and it will be used only asked whether they.



However, the problem is that there are too many 
mistakes. With FireMonkey one can work, for example, 
not at all properly. It is a full mistake and bad 
code. The QC it is bad. To error messages it is not 
reacted years.



Embarcadero puts work in innovations and coloured 
presentations, but the base is not already right.

Instead of in prize actions should be better invested 
in quality.



I am disappointed very much.

Comment by André on July 15, 14:47

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