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VOTEAnnouncing Elements Twelve
marc hoffman
Hi everyone.I’m overjoyed to announce the immediate availability of Elements Twelve, the next major version of our multi-language, multi-platform compiler and development suite.What’s in a new version number? As you know, we ship weekly updates… … Read more
1 year ago
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Island/Delphi: Using Delphi APIs from Elements
marc hoffman
With the just-announced Elements Twelve, we have added a major and long-requested new feature to our native-code “Island” platform: support for the Embarcadero Delphi class/object model and – with that – the ability to consume… … Read more
1 year ago
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Two New Oxygene Language Features
marc hoffman
We’ve added two cool new language features to Oxygene this week:Required PropertiesProperties in Oxygene can now be marked with the required directive. The new directive addition mandates explicit initialization of the properties every time an… … Read more
2 years ago
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Introducing CodeBot
marc hoffman
This week’s build of Elements gives a first peek at an exciting new feature we’ve been working on for the Fire IDE: CodeBot.CodeBot is a smart coding assistant that can help you write, analyze and… … Read more
2 years ago
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Core, Core, Core
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Hi everyone. Today’s build of Elements 11, build .2771, brings a first glance at two new experimental features: the ability to run the Elements compiler on .NET Core and — more excitingly — the Water… … Read more
2 years ago
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Introducing the RemObjects Referral Program
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What if you could save money on your RemObjects Software product licenses when referring others to check out the products you use and love every day?Today we are happy to introduce the new RemObjects Software… … Read more
3 years ago
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Happy 27th Birthday, Delphi
marc hoffman
Today Delphi is 27 years old. Wow.I remember taking a half-day off work (I was doing my year of social services at an Institute for Worker’s Safety in Dortmund, Germany, developing an app with Borland… … Read more
3 years ago
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ESP: Keeping Classic ASP.NET Alive
marc hoffman
I’m a big fan of Classic ASP.NET for web development, and (among other things) our website is built 100% on ASP.NET with Elements. But, as you might have heard or found out, classic ASP.NET (by… … Read more
3 years ago
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Going Back to Perpetual Licenses
marc hoffman
Based on user feedback, we have decided to change our licensing model for our yearly subscriptions to Elements, Remoting SDK, Data Abstract and the Suite back to fully perpetual licenses.As you may recall, for Elements… … Read more
3 years ago
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Actors
marc hoffman
Actors are (next to async/await) the big thing for Swift 5.5 this year. If, like me, reading the official spec makes you want to kill yourself slowly, and even the WWDC2021 videos make your eyes… … Read more
3 years ago
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Announcing Remoting SDK and Data Abstract Build .1515
marc hoffman
Hi everyone. I’m happy to announce that today we shipped major new “Stable” channel builds for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract (10.0.0.1515) and Hydra (6.4). These new builds are the culmination of almost a year… … Read more
3 years ago
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Webinar Next Week: WebAssembly w/ Oxygene
marc hoffman
Join me and my former colleague Jim McKeeth next Tuesday, June 8, for our webinar on using WebAssembly with Elements — with a specific focus on Oxygene and Delphi developers.Jim and i will talk about… … Read more
4 years ago
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Introducing Mercury
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RemObjects Mercury breathes new life into the Visual Basic.NET ecosystem, future-proofing the language and taking it beyond .NET to new platforms. … Read more
4 years ago
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Elements: It Goes to 11!
marc hoffman
With this weeks Stable release of Elements, build .2627, we’ve increased the major version number from 10 to 11 (insert a Spın̈al Tap joke here). This is to celebrate the newest addition to our language… … Read more
4 years ago
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Behind the Build(s) — .2605
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On Friday we published Elements build .2605, the first “Stable” channel build of the year, and wrapping together a lot of great changes and improvements from the past couple months of previews.Let’s have a look… … Read more
4 years ago
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