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GetVersionEx() (what System.SysUtils uses) needs the manifest. But RtlGetVersion() doesn't. Using this since forever with my old Delphi XE6.

Recently I had that problem too. Not with Interbase, but with svnserve. An exception for svnserve.exe was suddenly no longer an option, only the port (3690) worked.

Joel Spolsky has written about this some 23 years ago in his famous "Fire and Motion" article. In short, Microsoft "invents" new technology, and while devs try to adapt to that, Microsoft just drops that for a "newer, better" technology. And so on, and so on.

The "real" server can also be easily installed: just unpack the zip file and call the included batch file which installs the windows service. You can slim down that zip file in advance by removing docs and examples folders, edit the config files (firebird.conf, databases.conf, security5.fdb) and maybe even create your own batch files to name your instance. You can even have multiple firebird servers on the same machine (e.g. for your app and a foreign app) by choosing another port number (in firebird.conf).

"Wiggle it" - Bob Ross

Not on Windows 10 and 11. It scrolls, but doesn't expand the selection. But PSPad (written in Delphi IMHO) does.

As you always need to acquire the newest Delphi version in order to get bugs fixed on FireDAC, why not try a third party DAC? DevArt IBDAC can convert from BDE, IBX and FibPlus. Never needed to convert, so I cannot say how well this works though. But you can download a trial version and try it for yourself.

There is a commercial add on to Indy called YuOpenSSL, that replaces OpenSSL DLLs with Delphi DCUs.

IBX2 for Lazarus can do that. DevArt IBDAC can't.

Syntactic sugar. It does nothing more than that begin-end, but makes it clear (to me) that "B" is defined only for the purpose of abbreviating that expression.

Do you really need A? As you can have for var i:=1 to 10 do ... why not with var B := dmStoreInventoryData.tblUpdateItemForStore do begin B.AppendRecord([1,'foo','bar',3.1415]); end; and "B" would only be visible inside the "with" block, not outside of it. Currently you have to "fake" it by begin var B := dmStoreInventoryData.tblUpdateItemForStore B.Edit; B.FieldByName('Qty').AsInteger := NewQty; B.Post; end;

Both compile Pascal to javascript using pas2js. This seems to be more like UniGUI, Kitto or even IntraWeb, where your program itself is a webserver.

You mean Simula. Modula had no classes. Btw. Anonymous functions have been a feature of programming languages since Lisp in 1958. That was really a long time ago.

Maybe this is why it's named "Interbase Express" and not "Firebird Express"... Do you do low level access to Firebird? There is a low level Firebird interface API for Delphi and Lazarus from MWA Software (https://www.mwasoftware.co.uk/fb-pascal-api). It provides comprehensive documentation including a guide to write UDRs with pascal.

DevArt UniDAC supports MongoDB (dunno how well, never tested it). mORMot supports it too (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2).