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  1. Posted

    1. Debuggers, debuggers, debuggers - multithread handling is abysmal today

    2. Make HighDPI actually works as intended - it is useless in a team as is - unless everyone runs the same scaling

    3. Generics constraints for enumerated types to enable the use of conversion to/from ordinal values, use set operators, etc.

    4. Native ARM64 compiler for Delphi for Windows (and Linux/Raspberry PI, but Windows has prio)

    5. A 64-bit IDE that ensured that EMBT was dogfooding 64-bit VCL and RTL and raise the quality

     

    As for AI, I wouldn't mind an AI that could look at code and suggest improvements - perhaps as a part of the static code analysis, or one that could explain "what does this code do".

     

    I don't really need or want an AI to generate code.  If it is a standard, a lib should already exist. If it doesn't and there is no standard that covers the need, I'd be happy to have an AI outline alternative approaches - but given that the wide scope of parameters that goes into a design, I think it is unrealistic to expect that it would come up with the ideal suggestion without us writing a huge requirement. The output of VLLM generators is extremely dependant on precise and accurate specification statements, and writing those are almost as hard as writing good code. 

     

    As for AI and privacy - keep your secret credentials separated from your code.  Other than that, I don't think that many of us write code that truly needs to be hidden for secrecy reasons, although it is obvious that it will be necessary to ensure that privacy permeates the use of AI.

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  6. Posted

    https://blogs.embarcadero.com/getit-update-rad-studio-12-getit-online-installation-is-now-available/

     

    The new installer includes the Patch 1 fixes. 

     

    If you installed using the old online installer, you are unable to add platforms. If you need additional platforms, you will need to uninstall and reinstall using the new online installer (if you don't need additional platforms, you don't need to reinstall).

     

    Patch 1 is available through GetIt, and is also available as a standalone installer from my.embarcadero.com for registered users.

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  15. Posted

    Please note: Only the 12.0 Athens GetIt server has been restored at this point in time (Feb. 7th).

    https://blogs.embarcadero.com/getit-update-additional-rad-studio-12-getit-packages-are-now-available/

     

    https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-12-athens-patch-1-available/

     

    List of QP issues addressed in the patch:
    RSP-44063    Bug in MOD operation for Win64 Release configuration
    RSP-43656    [REGRESSION] Wrong codegen when passing empty open array to operator overload
    RSP-43568    Issue with TURI.Query Changed adding an equal sign to the URL ends with ?WSDL
    RSP-43551    When MDI form & Custom Styles are used together, the Process cannot be terminated.
    RSP-43547    New VisualManager feature causes crash in TCustomForm.WndProc() with Action=caFree
    RSP-43515    No event OnCameraDidFinishTaking for TTakePhotoFromCameraAction
    RSP-43494    Event OnValidate fails when the DBGrid is full - AGAIN!
    RSP-43463    JSON serialization error with scientific double notation
    RSP-43459    TEdit.FilterChar crash app on Android
    RSP-43422    NetHttpClient parsing URL parameters is incorrect
    RSP-43418    Wrong Delphi code optimization for integer div/mod
    RSP-43407    The Delphi compiler in RAD Studio 12 is no longer able to resolve standard types by their aliases when generates HPP files for a BPL package with components if the referenced types are declared in other units
    RSP-43383    Delphi 12 Android TEdit error
    RSP-43362    [iOS] TListView set search visible to True, the system will crash when clicking into the search area.
    RSP-43326    Blob reading is broken for 64-bit platforms in dbExpress
    RSP-43318    Incorrect ShortCut in TActionList
    RSP-43311    TSQLTimeStampOffset problems with Firebird 4
    RSP-43299    TFlowLayout exception when all its elements are set to invisible
    RSP-43274    Arithmetic operations on record fields return incorrect results in certain cases if the "Optimization" compiler option is enabled
    RSP-43235    Structure view and Search for a method box no longer populated
    RSP-43007    Internal compiler error F2084
    RSP-42860    FMX TListBox List Index Out OF Bounds
    RSP-42692    Ctrl-j - invoke template don’t work
    RSP-42682    TreeView crash
    RSP-42657    TTreeview crashes when scrolling in iOS
    RSP-42634    QBE component causes fatal IDE crash when removed from form
    RSP-42616    FMX: Key Handling different behavior in Delphi 12
    RSP-42601    TURI with encoded Params are mangled when initialized
     

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  21. Posted

    Kinda hard to evaluate, given that there is zero example data for the various elements.

     

    There was a change in 12 with regards to math exceptions.

    If you add this code, it is supposed to behave like 11.x. 

    System.math.SetExceptionMask( [exPrecision, exUnderflow, exDenormalized]); // Enable exInvalidOp, exZeroDivide, and exOverflow exceptions

    Ref. https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Floating_Point_Operation_Exception_Masks


    Not sure if this applies to integer math, though.

  22. Posted

    Have a look at System.DateUtils.

     

    Note that there is a teorethical possibility that it is a non-business day, depending on the local holidays of the country the user is living.

    F.x,

    United States Labor Day which falls on first Monday of September

    Irish St.Brigid's Day is first Monday of February.
     

     

     

     

  24. Posted

    21 minutes ago, David Heffernan said:

    What's the reputational cost of the current fiasco? 

    Are you thinking about operational cost of new solution vs reputational cost of outage and lack of info?
    The suits would probably say those are two different budgets 😛

    My personal opinion on the outage and recovery time: priceless, but not in a good way.
    As for operational cost: In the context of @Vincent Parrett's observation, if they simply recreated their VMs - that is far more costly than running cloud adapted services, so it will mean a steep increase in operational cost if that solution is maintained for the long run. In the short run, it makes sense in the context of minimizing the reputational cost issue.
     

  25. Posted

    @Miguel Moreno It seems that the XMLMapper the 12.0 GetIt, is the old version again 😞

    It crashes on the recursive TPack.xsd, and it fails to correctly render a relatively simple schema, while the newer XMLMapper in 11.3 does the job right.

    11.3 version on top, 12.0 version on bottom.

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