Does anyone have information about Linux Support in the upcoming version of Delphi?

Question

I need this info to decide on what I am going to do about my platform support of my systems in the coming year, but can't find any real info on that. Maybe someone has some just released information.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are four projects on the Delphi roadmap:

• Delphi Weaver (Firebird support, enhanced RTTI, Windows 7 API)
• Delphi X (Cross-platform)
• Delphi Chromium (Quality)
• Delphi Commodore (64-bit compiler, better multi-threading support)

You are looking for Delphi X, but it is unknown when it will come out. Delphi Weaver will be the next Delphi version.

Answer 2

This is as much as there is publicly available. Marco usually is well informed. But there are no release dates for the version.

Project Weaver

Focused on User Experience (new IDE Insight, Touch support), Connectivity, improved Documentation, Team Productivity, DataSnap with HTTP, REST server, .NET Proxies for DataSnap, Callbacks supported, dbExpress with native Firebird support, Aspect Oriented Programming support, Subversion integration, Windows 7 and Direct2D support, SOAP 1.2 clients, enhanced RTTI

Project Delphi “X”

Cross-platform support for MacOS and Linux, server and clients on Linux and Mac

Project Chromium

All about developer productivity, Pascal code formatter, documentation for the ToolsAPI, new Databinding model, integrated DB tools

Project Commodore

64-bit Windows, compiler + RTL + VCL, multicore support, parallel RTL

Future (far)

Cloud computing, Web 3.0++, beyond RIA, Devices, sw appliances, secutiry, compliance

Beyond the Beyond

Functional programming, declarative programming, natural input, more platforms…