Aug
10
Written by:
Tim
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:33 PM
Embarcadero has announced RAD Studio XE and will be showing a number of “sneak peaks” during August prior to release in “early September”. You can see the previews and further information here.
The suite includes Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE (Delphi for Visual Studio and .NET) and RadPHP XE.
The first preview focuses on integrated Subversion support, a nice feature but hardly a game changer – most IDEs have had this for years, though this looks comprehensive with differencing, file history and so on within the IDE.
There’s also a look at RadPHP, which is a new version of Delphi for PHP. It is reminiscent of ASP.NET Web Forms, in that it gives a drag-and-drop visual designer and lets you quickly hook up code to event handlers such as a button click. There’s also a component model and the ability to set breakpoints for debugging. We even get the old listbox and editbox demo which I recall from Delphi 1 days.
Embarcadero’s Mike Rozlog blogs about the new product here.
I am a big fan of Delphi and C++ Builder, but my initial reaction is that developers are going to say, where is cross-platform for Mac and Linux that was talked about last year, where is 64-bit Delphi? None of this looks remotely cutting-edge.
The published Roadmap is short on dates, but I’m guessing some of this may come next year.
Related posts:
- What next for Embarcadero Delphi? Roadmap with Mac, Linux support published.
- Prism: official Delphi language comes to Visual Studio
- Embarcadero RAD Studio 2009 is done
Originally published in Tim Anderson's blog here