A while ago – while researching yesterdays post – I came across the below article that I wrote back in august 2000 for The Delphi (by Pinnacle Publishing – long gone by now) and on-line at http://www.delphidevelopernewsletter.com/dd/DDMag.nsf/WebIndexByIssue/B8FC16D8103A3760852568F600559A83
I found a cached copy first at http://www.txsz.net/xs/delphi/2/%E6%8A%80%E5%B7%A7%E5%8F%8A%E7%BB%8F%E9%AA%8C/KYLIX%EF%BC%9A%20%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8.HTM and back-tracked from there.
Since the wayback machine isn’t indexed, I salvaged the copy below.
On the Delphi Tokyo release yesterday [WayBack] Tokyo is available today! – Martin Sedgewick – Google+: I will only try that after Update 1 is released, but based on the [WayBack] What’s New – RAD Studio:
Like
- Reintroduction of Linux support. Finally.
- 64-bit as target: server side, the 32-bit days have been over for a long time
- one-based strings (boy, I’m glad they didn’t continue on the zero-based strings they did on mobile)
Dislike
- No openSUSE support where SuSE was the primary partner during Kylix development and launch, just search SuSE kylix; heck the registration guide is still up at [WayBack] SDB:Kylix – openSUSE
- LLVM compiler as it is way too slow for my development cycles
- ARC based
Time will tell if it works better for me than the .NET Core for Linux I’ve been using until now.
–jeroen
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