Hi to all, is there any information available for the next version ( 2011 ?? ) of Delphi/cbuilder from Embarcadero ?.
Is there some link somewhere pointing to info related to next Delphi / cbuilder , when and what it might be in ?
Anything?
Thanks a lot.
Sebastian.
Now this would be your last option.Give it a look.
RAD Studio 2010, Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism in the News
This contains all the very long term plans: "The Future of Delphi Looks Brighter Than Ever Before"
And this is a great Wings of Wind blog post commenting on that: Newsflash: The Roadmap.
The best official word you will get is the road map, which was just published Sept 11th, 2009, by Michael Rozlog. There may be a new Road Map published soon, but until then, that is the best official word.
From what I understand (most of which is in that road map, or was from the Delphi Live! Labs sessions which you can catch the videos of on my site,) Delphi Project X (which I am assuming is going to be the next version, but it may not) is going to focus on cross platform compilation.
Version after that is I believe going to be Commodore, which is the 64 bit version.
There is also some functional programming and multi-threaded features that are going to be mixed in there someplace.
That road map, even though it is from September, is prior to the Weaver / 2010 release of Delphi, so I am expecting a new road map soon. That one should have a more clear view of what to be expected. Keep in mind that these are their goals, and they are subject to change as they go along. The further our the goal is, the more likely it is to change as things move forward.
As far as releases, they seem to like releasing in the fall. So in the September, October, November time frame next year. Of course that is all purely conjecture. Yadda, yadda, yadda. So don't make any plans on this.
Some new information can be found here:
Delphi 2011 and beyond: The Libraries Ahead
We know that VCL is tied to Win32 API, hence there was a lot of speculation about a presumable VCL 2.0 which will be the cross-platform cousin of the actual VCL. Such a library exists (is in development) and will be delivered alongside with VCL which will be kept for Windows development. The team called it VCLX in the newsgroups and elsewhere – even if it seems that the actual, release name will be different ;-) – and in the roadmap it is written about it “Limited backward compatibility”.
Hello!
I remember reading a post on the official Embarcadero forums by Alen Bauer himself, saying that if they published any details about Delphi 2011, the sales of Delphi2010 would drop and Embarcadero would soon go bankrupt.
Now go figure...
See some screenshots of D2011 at http://www.activedelphi.com.br/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54149&sid=2bf2c803da215eb29a4135e8c4dd829f
New info: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/40766
The version after Delphi 2010 has been released it is now called Delphi XE.
Details of what was actually released can be found on Embarcadero's Website.