Delphi For VS: Lost In The Translation?

Much excitement and many denials from CodeGear followed on from this assertion – including one denial here on Bitwise from Delphi’s product manager and a phone call to me from their European division to assure me that the Le Monde story was totally without foundation. I was also told that the journal would be publishing a new feature in which they planned to admit to their error.

And so they have…

…well, kind of.

True enough, the writer does now say that CodeGear has no plans to move Delphi into Visual Studio (reproduced below in my, by no means guaranteed 100% accurate, translations)….

“Contrary to what was written in a previous version of this article, CodeGear has no intention of abandoning this platform (BDS) for the next versions of Delphi and denies any intention of using the Visual Studio platform (source : Ludovic Neveu, CodeGear EMEA).”

Contrairement à ce qu’il avait été écrit dans une précédente version de cet article, CodeGear n’a pas l’intention d’abandonner ce socle technique pour les prochaines versions de Delphi et dément toute intention d’utiliser le socle technique de Visual Studio (source : Ludovic Neveu, CodeGear EMEA).

That sounds clear cut, I guess. However, the writer isn’t giving in graciously. He goes on to say that he thinks CodeGear is wrong…

“CodeGear should, perhaps, concentrate on what it does best – an Object Pascal language with a good, tried and tested, VCL Library, and think about building upon the Visual Studio platform [1] for everything in .NET.”

CodeGear devrait peut-être se concentrer sur ce qu’il sait le mieux faire, un langage Pascal objet avec une bonne bibliothèque VCL qui a fait ses preuves et envisager d’utiliser le socle technique de Visual Studio pour tout l’aspect .NET.

Just to rub salt into the wounds, he then favourably mentions RemObjects’ Object Pascal implementation for Visual Studio and finally adds:

“To move Delphi onto the Visual Studio platform has the same sort of logic as moving JBuilder onto the Eclipse platform. A pragmatic step dictated by market forces which would without doubt save CodeGear from possible collapse.”

Passer Delphi sur le socle Visual Studio entre dans la même logique que passer JBuilder sur le socle Eclipse. Une démarche pragmatique dictée par la loi du marché et qui pourrait sans doute sauver CodeGear d’un éventuel naufrage.

Read the rest (in French) HERE.