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I told ChatGPT to write a blog post for me thinking I might save some effort and finally get something useful out of it. Write a blog post about the Uses Clause Manager Expert in GExperts (Yes, I'm a lazy basterd™) It wrote a very convincing blog post on the topic which unfortunately was utter bullshit. None, I repeat: None, of the claims were true. So what did I do? I blogged about it.

There's always a free Zeos or a cheap UniDac. Both have the added advantage of running in Lazarus.

It depends what native is important. FMX doesn't use native GUI widgets and toolkits. But it's native in the sense that the compiler emits code that runs on the metal. To me it feels like the former is an important limitation and the latter is just not relevant.

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Can you? You can with VCL but FMX isn't native. Is that really a significant advantage over C#?

This discourse is absolutely misleading and meaningless. This is the problem with the CE license. I report my case, i have a subscription active and I'm not licensed to use a CE: I have a very wide "internet" band available and I have decided to share this resource in the neighborhood with students and other people who don't have economic possibilities (free of course). Does this mean that whoever connects to my network works for me? What if some students use the CE? That's why I asked the students not to use CE (one of them actually wanted to learn Delphi but I directed him to Lazarus). This is reality, not fantasy and many structures leave accessibility to the resources they have without there having to be an economic activity behind it. Surely the Community Edition has its advantages, but the legal aspect is so stringent that those who want to approach this tool prefer other ways. Bye

😍PASCAL is the best programming language in the world 😍 but Delphi CE is not the right product if you want to distribute your projects freely. Behind Delphi there is a structure (now is Embarcadero / IDERA) which is not "non-profit" and which rightly must be rewarded for the work it does. Despite all the Delphi environment (overall) remains for me the best programming environment in Pascal and I use it as a job to be able to pay for it.

On the use of the community license, my advice is to be very careful about what you do. I bring them my case. At home, on my personal notebook I had installed the community version of Delphi, it was the Rio, to work on an open-source project, GLSCENE. Since I have little time at home to develop I, unhappily, thought of taking advantage of the hour and a half of free time for lunch break I have at the office, to continue development on my personal notebook BUT attached to the company WIFI network to access the sources, do push and everything else. Well after a month or so I got a tethered notification from Embarcadero, that according to their logs, Community sends logs of what files you compile, when you compile, what network and domain you are working on, my company was not using Community intebitually for application development while earning over 5000E. The email came directly to the company by going back to the company's internet domain data. There was no way to make it clear, even after sending the project report I worked on, that it was not of company interest but personal, about it being my personal laptop, etc. Moral of the story, they gave me a number of days to purchase the full Architect product (the most expensive formula) or legal action would start. The company covered the cost, thankfully. Be careful where you connect with terminals.... Since then never again a Community product and since I personally cannot buy Licensed products at those prices, I now participate in open-source projects with other environments and languages.