Lars Fosdal

I spent nearly a decade undoing my built-in left-pinky-shift uppercase reserved word habit, imbued during the pre-syntax-coloring years 🤣 However, I won't give up my if/then/else formatting, and I haven't found a formatter able to replicate it. So, I guess I don't miss that formatter.

If you are have a current subscription license, you can now download RAD Studio 13 from MyEmbarcadero. https://my.embarcadero.com/#downloadsPage You can also see What's New on the doc wiki: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/What's_New

It is only fair to have a poll on the topic, since AI is the new hotness. Besides, we aim to stay on the good side of @Javier Tarí😉 The poll will run for a month, and votes are anonymous - so noone will be outed.

I thought everyone had dropped Kaspersky by now.

What you really need, really depends on each person. You obviously can't satisfy everone every time.

Let me moderate myself - I would have loved WebStencils 5-10-15 years ago, but now I work for a company that do advanced scalable web development, using the industry standards - which is not RADServer or WebStencils. WebStencils could be nice if you need a web UI for a Windows Service or similar, though.

I like the WebStencils, but I have no use for it...

The C++ guys are prolly excited. I like the new operators, the new generic constraints, PushOpt/PopOpt, NameOf, Basic version support in GetIt. There is a LOT of RTL stuff as well - but that is defintively YMMV. I still wish they would have added a generic constraint for enumerated types to enable the use of Include/Exclude/In etc.

Some useful stuff, but YMMV. https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Florence/en/What's_New

It is and was set on 11:59 PM, i.e. 23:59.

Changed it to 10/10/2025 - in case there is a date format mixup somewhere.

That is odd, because it is configured to end at

Same for me. The Unread content stream is where I enter the forums.

That has been suggested further up in this thread.

Comments are welcome as well!

It is only fair to let the community have their say:

IMO, that error doesn't describe a missing zlib.dll - but that the zlib.dll is missing the function "inflateValidate". Is your version current?

@david berneda You could have your "PASS defines" in "dcc_define" in Enviroment variables, but those are global and not per project, AFAIK. It would have been nice to be able to set those per project. dcc_define = Eurekalog;FOO;someotherdefine and use ifdef blocks in each unit for that which cannot be set in an .inc file.

"Using IA coding agents for Delphi development"? - General could be an alternative to off-topic. I've used Gemini and CoPilot for programming in PowerShell and Delphi in VS Code, with mixed results. Great for analysis and improvement, not so good for developing new code.

Integration with an AI: Delphi IDE and API or Third Party Wrestling with AI generated code: Which ever topic that the generated code is relevant to How to formulate AI prompts: Off-topic

Very nice. Now we just need an OpenAPI 3.0 to Delphi REST code implementation 🙂

As mentioned by @Vincent Parrett - Proper stack traces with EurekaLog, MadExcept or similar, are invaluable in such cases. The cost of buying one of these tools is quickly dwarfed by the cost of the time spent on researching issues without proper insights from said tools.