Re: Wild speculations about the "other" factors

Simon Kissel wrote:

Well, but if Enterprise customers are not 100% .NET (I agree this isn't
really to be expected), but more like .. say 50/50 .NET/native, then
with the non-Enterprise customers being 80-90% native, this means that
the focus of the current roadmap is not balanced

Not necessarily. If you focus exclusively on "Win32", and avoid DOS and Win16, there were still 6 releases that focused exclusively on a "Win32" development tool. As many have said here, D7 (and even D6) were very mature development tools.

There have been 3 releases that included .NET development capabilities. And only one of those was exclusive to .NET.

(remember, we are talking about 5 .NET-focussed releases in a row here before a
native-code focussed may see the light of day).

No, we're not. There was only ONE .NET "focused" release, Delphi 8. Delphi 9 had Win32 support. Do you think that came without cost? Do you think that incorporating the Delphi/Win32 into the new IDE came without cost? Do you think that providing as many new features of D9 to the Delphi/Win32 personality came without cost?

Delphi 9 was NOT a .NET focused release.

With BDS 2006, they added a C++ personality. This is a Win32 personality as well, and I'd certainly ask the same questions I asked above. Does the C++ personality work as well as BCB6 users want it to? From what I hear, most BCB6 users are disappointed, yet thrilled to actually have a newer IDE with the knowledge of ongoing, future updates to their personality.

Delphi 10 was NOT a .NET focused release.

Simon, it is great that you advocate for more "native" features in BDS. But please do so with facts, not FUD.

Jon
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