Re: The trend is to move away from Delphi...

Alisdair Meredith[TeamB] wrote:

I hate to be the one to stand up and say it, but I don't think
Borland's goal should be to be competitive with the other C++ compilers
- they are simply too far ahead now, and the resources required to
simply catch up to these moving targets would be vast.

I somewhat agree to your opinion. But I doubt that the advantage of having C++ RAD (better said one of the best - or the best), will be sufficient for C++ to survive in BDS.
VCL isn't C++ either, it was (and still is) an innovative framework, which can be also used from C++ (Borland C++).

I think this it the way to go for DevCo. Create innovative development tools and make them available for all the supported languages, native and managed.

So far I think CBX was a really good idea. Using other compilers, to keep track of the C++ standard and provide an exceptional GUI framework. That said, the really silly idea of CBX was not supporting the VCL.

What if VCL would also be available for other languages, or other C++ compilers ? I think this would be a killer feature for the VCL.
I know it's not an easy task, perhaps impossible, but it would be great.
(just dreaming ;-) )

[...]
I do have one interesting gambit to turn standards compliance back into
a positive marketing feature, by delaying the target date for language
conformance! The idea would be to target full conformance in 5 years
time, but targetting the NEXT standard.

Well, the next standard will be based on the current one. So to target the upcoming standard the compiler must be able to compile the current one. Then why not release a standard conforming compiler in 2 years ?
And then develop for the next standard ? Or did you want to save time for releasing / supporting a new version after 2 years ?

Falling behind is IMHO not a good idea, though this can be compensated by very innovative development tools, which are much better than the current C++ standard or the upcoming one and even better could be used in the other languages too. I would know some, but I cannot write about them here.

[...] Of course , any further discussion of this belongs on the BCB non-tech
group, follow-up set accordingly.

Agreed.

AlisdairM(TeamB)

Andre
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