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  1. 11 hours ago, luciano_f said:

    We urgently need more robust IDE

    Now there is the rub! A 64Bit IDE will be experimental at best. Quite the contrary to a stable IDE. Just consider the introduction of DelphiLSP. Now that Baby started birthing more than three years ago, and it is still not "robust". I'd prefer them to fix the 32Bit IDE to reach a robust stage over them pulling resources to that new construction site.

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  2. 14 hours ago, luciano_f said:

    As I already mentioned, there is no reason not to have a 64-bit IDE since the whole world is moving towards this, let's get to the Facts


    Lazarus 64 Bit
    Visual Studio 64 Bit

    Android 64 Bit only
    MacOs 64 Bit only


    Who knows, maybe the day Microsoft says it will end support for Win32 will see Embarcadero in shame.

    Well, the main reason on the Embarcadero side would be that the IDE in its current state is not generated from on single codebase in one single language, but is a patchwork of more or less pretty quilts assembled to look like a single piece of software. Some of those patchy things have not been touched in quite some time (this is just a guess on my part, but it is an educated one). Lazarus on the other hand is dogfooding at its best.


  3. 9 minutes ago, Lajos Juhász said:

     

    That's easy. The only reason is that they can say that finally managed to copy it from other languages. Lately that's the only driving force behind the R&D.

    To be honest, that is also the only driving force behind change requests (language XY has it) as well - hyperbolically speaking.


  4. 57 minutes ago, avesuvorov said:

    For reference: I have a MacBook with an intel i5 processor.

    Sorry, but that wont do to run the simulator. It is ARM only - meaning you'll need Apple Silicone to run it.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

    (I wouldn't have written it that way, but I also don't want to take the time to rewrite from scratch)

    Surprisingly (or not), this argument leads to spending more time with legacy code over time than rewriting from scratch. At least that has been my observation for the past 20 years.


  6. 20 hours ago, FreeDelphiPascal said:

    People from Tiobe must really really hate Delphi.

    Considering hate stems mostly from envy, I can live with that.

    On 5/15/2022 at 10:03 AM, Rinzwind said:

    i first had the impression Tiobe stood for the number of queries in a month about a certain language, but apparently that's not the case. Pointless.

    I guess it used to be, but for quite some time it's more convoluted. As the number of queries only reflects on poor documentation, steep learning curve and hype. So...no wonder that is not used anymore, but how else could one measure a languages popularity compared to others? Number of books published on the subject? Sales? I'm glad I don't have to come up with some language rating scheme...


  7. That portal is prone to hiccups. Sometimes it wants me to solve dozens of captchas before finally letting me through other times it forgets me, but most of the times it works just fine. Just be patient with it.


  8. On 8/7/2023 at 5:01 PM, Mohammed Nasman said:

    Hi Ian, 


      It seems an easy one, PM me and I will help you.

    Regards,

    Yeah, I'm sorry, but that is not how this forum works. If every question would be resolved via PM, anyone looking for an answer to the same questions would get to find nothing here... and have no motivation to share his knowledge in this forum.

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  9. 8 hours ago, alogrep said:

    Funny thing: I put IDE in the serach of this newsgroup and get zero results.

    The forum search requires single words to be at least 4 letters. Sorry, there is not much to do about it. You can try searching less broad by using more than one keyword i.e. "IDE freeze"

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