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My last comparison was a few years ago. At that time they were almost on par. Personally I prefer Pascal Expert, but mostly because it works similar to its companion Pascal Analyzer, which also provides a command line tool usable for build integration.

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We are pleased to announce the release of SonarDelphi v1.0.0. SonarDelphi is a free and open-source Delphi language plugin for the SonarQube code quality platform. GitHub: https://github.com/integrated-application-development/sonar-delphi Release: https://github.com/integrated-application-development/sonar-delphi/releases/tag/v1.0.0 Background If you're thinking "I've seen this before", you're probably right! SonarDelphi was originally open-sourced by Sabre Airline Solutions in 2012. It's bounced from maintainer to maintainer on GitHub (including Embarcadero). This project is a greatly improved version that has been actively developed (and extensively rewritten) by IntegraDev for the last 4 years. Features Powerful semantic analysis 120+ analysis rules Custom rules via templates or a programmatic java API Import NUnit test reports (compatible with DUnitX) Import test coverage reports (compatible with DelphiCodeCoverage) Feedback and contributions are welcome!

Sent many emails past 2 years, to support of: - Known issues/bugs - About next release - Feature requests And sent direct question to TMS sales about FixInsight, is there going top be new version, and about the same message to their support forum thingy. No response, what so ever. Nothing. Not even hello, we have received your message. Absolutely nothing... We have been paid customer from the start (about)... -Tee-

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The string "Windows 10" or "Windows 11" does not come from the Windows API, it is a string hardcoded into the Delphi RTL (System.RTLConsts.pas). Delphi 10.2 is from 2017. Windows 11 was released 2021.

I don't understand the question. On my Windows 11 laptop, TOSVersion.ToString returns Windows 11 (Version 22H2, OS Build 22621.2715, 64-bit Edition) You could look at TOSVersion.Create in System.SysUtils.pas. TOSVersion.Name should also return "Windows 11"

That library is connected with push notifications, and is not related to UMP (User Messaging Platform). That I am, and thanks! A progress update: I have some code working in Android, though the process of integrating the support is not exactly pretty - it's something that really should be built into the IDE. More later..

Which of these plugins made compiler understand multi-line strings in source code?

Thank you for the feedback!!! It's great to finally have someone looking at xxm. I've been trying to find anyone that wants to combine Delphi and web (back-end) in a specifically different way than trying to force RAD-form design onto web-pages (yuck) and also steer clear from ORM's, but that's still something else than the basic project that indeed needs some work just to get it to be more welcoming for new users... 1) I have been sticking to Delphi 7 for a very long time, (and trying to keep xxm working for both Delphi 7 and 'modern' Delphi) so I was not sure where exactly the switch to NativeInt was. I'll update the $IF's to <30, I guess. 2) That may be by design, I've got the 'main' projects in the dpg/groupproj, and some periferal projects serve some specific tasks, or are not ready for primetime yet... 3) I'm in the process of removing xxmConvert*, and may have missed a few dpr/dproj, please check my most recent commits 4) You're right, I completely forgot to commit an example "xxm.json". xxmProject should be able to add to an empty file named "xxm.json" when you're using the "Register with xxm.json..." button, I should look into that, at least update the documentation (I had xxm.xml before, but the same problem applied...) For now you should be able to get going with something like this: { "projects": { "xxm": { "path": "D:/Data/xxm/Delphi/demo2/listprojects/listprojects.xxl" } } } Also I would suggest to limit yourself to xxmHttpDev (or just xxmHttp), the other projects are for other web-environments (IIS, SCGI, Apache httpd...)

There is no reason for your application to do anything if you tap a notification that is meant for other applications. What do you mean by "closes abnormally"? Does it crash with no error messages? Have you used the Console app to check for log messages that might help determine why your app crashes?

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The SonarDelphi plugin is now available through the SonarQube Marketplace. This makes installation even simpler: * Install SonarQube Community Edition * Navigate to Administration > Marketplace * Find Delphi in the list and click Install After that, you just need to configure your project properties. (See CONFIGURATION)

At least in 13 they would have an excuse for poor quality

I'm not sure it is a joke. Even today there are so many people with superstitions around, that releasing a version containing the number 13 might actually cost them some customers. I even have the impression this part of the population is growing rather than shrinking.

For me, getting 12 installed has become frustrating. I just learned my registration limit has been reached. I now know that the limit is two. But what I wanted to mention is that the link(s) in the installations 'product registration' dialogbox (located at the bottom left corner) do not work. Actually, all the links in that dialog box do not work. When it opens my browser, I get "Hmmm... can't reach this page. Make sure you've got the right web address: http://www.embarcadero.com" and make a suggestion that I search Bing! Now, I will have to wait until next Monday to bump my registration because my rep(s) never answer email after 5 or 6pm. And when they do, its another 24 hours of waiting. Since my subscription runs out today, 11/10/2023, I will not be able to install 12 after all. Oh well.

It does indeed. But I do find it a little hard to get excited by festures that other tools have had for years.

I started working with Delphi when it was first released in 1995. Prior to that I did embedded real-time work in C and was learning OOP with C++ when Delphi came out. For me, the 1990's were the most fun I've had in my entire career. I worked for a series of startups as their Chief Architect and Developer. They all died for various (non-technical) reasons, although one came very close to breaking out and becoming something significant. (Most of the people I worked with at Intel from 79 thru the mid-80's all went on to work with one or more startups and they all became multi-bazillionaires, a few even became billionaires.) By 2000 I was working entirely with Delphi. I really loved it. There was a lot of new work going on with it and it was a lot of fun. But by 2010, Delphi had been around for 15 years. Code had started to accumulate where the original dev teams had moved on ... to the point where there were well-paying contract gigs for people who had 5+ years of experience with Delphi, and I chased after them, but they got harder and harder to find. The next 10 years was a mix of contracts and regular jobs where the companies said they were looking for "experienced Delphi developers to lead projects". But they pretty much all turned into glorified maintenance roles. Over time, each new company / project got stricter and stricter in terms of what they would allow, and virtually none of it involved new product development. That was all being done in C#/.NET and the existing devs got to move to that stuff while contractors were hired to back-fill and keep the Delphi code running. It seems like the longer you work in a specific technology, the more expertise you're going to accumulate, and the more likely you are to be hired to maintain critical systems that use that technology. Companies like to invest in risk-reduction, so they seem to like hiring experts who are over-qualified for maintenance work. (Except recruiters from places like India who always say "I'm sorry Mr. David, but the client can't pay more than $21, maybe $22 per hour for someone with 10+ years of experience". They're trying to document that they cannot find Americans to hire in order to justify H1-B workers.) The Good News is that I just turned 65 and got on Social Security. I no longer have to deal with this crap just to survive, and I can start looking around for things that I *WANT* to do and I don't have to worry about the pay. I feel like I did when graduated from college! Except I'm now free of the "rat race" so I can really have some FUN with this technology. I've got some things I'm working on for myself, and was invited to be on the advisory board of a startup already. Things are really looking up.

For myself, if I use that new feature it will only be used spargingly because, as usual, new language features break tooling. Here are a few QP issues added on multi-line strings: RSP-43420 multiline string literal class const breaks syncing between IDE form designer and editor RSP-43408 Multiline string literal containing reserved word breaks down navigation RSP-43380 Multiline string literals breaks code formatter Given that the inline vars feature was added 5 years ago and the IDE tooling still doesn't fully support it... you really have to wonder when the tooling will properly handle multi-line strings.

Two and a half year later... I still want the above.