What new features would you like to see in Delphi 13?

[Stefan Glienke 2026]

You are comparing Win32/Debug with Win64/Release *cough*

[shineworld 79]

4 hours ago, Lars Fosdal said:

@shineworld That is bigger than "fairly large", I'd say. 

May I ask how much of the code is generated vs hand-crafted?

I use a lot of third-party libraries and exclusively from source so the compiled code grows a lot. I may not have understood what is meant by “code is generated” but it is almost all hand-made code. This also includes compilers of various languages used by the system, for which, yes some of it is auto-generated (I use Gold Parser), but a few thousand lines. The program also different script languages, server types, and there the code grows. Empirically maybe I wrote 40% by hand, the rest is libraries, data, and different versions of UI.

 

Edited Monday at 02:41 PM by shineworld

[Charlie Heaps 2]

I'd love to see:
 

1. VCL Compiler for Windows ARM.

2. Improvements to high DPI and styles. Getting font sizing to work properly is still difficult and standard windows dialogs (e.g. TAdvDialog) do not adopt the app's current style.  (There is an open source component set called  "VCL Styles Utils" that attempts to patch these dialogs but it does not work reliably - at least for me).  Would hope Embarcadero might adopt this and make it more reliable.

3. A consistent, well-designed, and reliable context-sensitive help system: and help/encourage 3rd party component developers to adopt it. 

 

 

 

[Brandon Staggs 296]

12 hours ago, Charlie Heaps said:

2. Improvements to high DPI and styles. Getting font sizing to work properly is still difficult and standard windows dialogs (e.g. TAdvDialog) do not adopt the app's current style.  (There is an open source component set called  "VCL Styles Utils" that attempts to patch these dialogs but it does not work reliably - at least for me).  Would hope Embarcadero might adopt this and make it more reliable.

The irony for me is that I have been so frustrated with the inadequacies of VCL multi-monitor-DPI support than I have long since solved all of the issues myself, and every time Embarcadero tries to improve their support, they break my fixes. So, maybe a bit selfishly, I hope they stop messing with it! Just kidding, this is definitely an area they still need to improve. 

[EugeneK 19]

I think first priority should be Windows on ARM support