From $960 + $399/year. I think it's quite an accomplishment to survive in the modern world of free software development tools.
Community Edition is free
Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
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Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
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#33Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
#34Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it. Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
I disagree, because C++ Builder also exists. :) Although .NET also follows along, pity that it took so many years for Microsoft to actually care about native compilation beyond NGEN.
Did .NET manage to get rid of unsolicited tracing garbage collection?
Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
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Mostly Microsoft (inertia, you're already paying) and game consoles (expensive SDK/dev-kit licensing with NDA crap). I see it less on Apple platforms except for published applications and niche tools.
There are many other computers out there. You already paid for XCode via their beloved hardware margins.
What about that $99 yearly developer fee?
(Technically it is optional if you don't need to ship signed apps or submit to the app store and you don't care about the rest of Apple's developer program.)
Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
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There are many other computers out there. You already paid for XCode via their beloved hardware margins.
What about that $99 yearly developer fee? (Technically it is optional if you don't need to ship signed apps or submit to the app store and you don't care about the rest of Apple's developer program.)
That is on top, I guess.
Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree, because C++ Builder also exists. :) Although .NET also follows along, pity that it took so many years for Microsoft to actually care about native compilation beyond NGEN.
Did .NET manage to get rid of unsolicited tracing garbage collection?
Depends on how you write program, there are enough language features for low level coding and value types.
Additionally lets not pretend Delphi doesn't have issues with memory and resources tracking.
Even the whole reference counting support only applies to COM types, or when targeting Apple platforms.
Which have had various changes to their behaviour across Delphi version.
Other than that it is as it has always been since Turbo Pascal days.
Re: Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
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Visual Studio has WinForms, which is pretty RAD.
And I think preferable to the XML split of code and GUI that is web like and how Microsoft’s other frameworks work.
It is absolutely preferable in that sense. The web-esq interface approach is far harder than it needs to be for small applications with basic interfaces.