{"id":582,"date":"2009-10-14T19:42:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T07:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-10-14T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T07:44:12","slug":"all-very-hush-hush-and-on-the-qt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/582\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Qt and all very Hush, Hush…"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

A commenter on my blog suggested that Cross Platform could be a big win for Delphi, making it \u201cthe first\u201d to achieve this. \u00a0This I think says a lot about the awareness and expectation of (some) of the people asking for cross platform, because far from being first Delphi would be way<\/span> behind the curve in this area.<\/p>\n

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In providing a handful of examples of previous and current efforts it occurred to me that Embarcadero are preparing to go head-to-head with the likes of Nokia\u2019s Qt<\/a>, without the advantage of being an open source platform and without being able (initially and without more work) to target the additional handheld platforms that Qt already supports.<\/p>\n

We might pooh-pooh FreePascal and Lazarus for being gentleman amateurs in a sport of professionals. \u00a0I do not think that Nokia and Qt can be dismissed so easily. \u00a0And again, I find myself wondering if Embarcadero are really thinking straight on this one.<\/p>\n

So that’s the “Qt<\/strong>” part of the post dealt with. \u00a0What about the “hush hush<\/strong>“….?<\/p>\n

Well, it also occured to me that Embarcadero’s view of what the Delphi community wants may have been skewed by the roadmap of some 2 years ago, which positioned Commodore as the next release after Tiburon.<\/p>\n

That is, the roadmap that gave the impression that Delphi 2010 would be the release to deliver 64-bit support, coming as it did after Tiburon (Delphi 2009).<\/p>\n

Indeed, I have seen people mention that Delphi 2010 already supports 64-bit and had to disappoint them on that score. \u00a0I thought I had seen this on StackOverflow (in a comment, not a question or answer) but, perhaps because<\/em> it was in a comment, the search facilities on StackOverflow are proving inadequate to the job of finding it again.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say that the reaction to the further 2 year delay for 64-bit support is a mixture of both dismay but sometimes more prominently shock<\/span><\/strong>, or at the least surprise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This surprise might explain why Embarcadero believe there isn’t a great call for 64-bit, because in my experience, when people already know or think they are going to receive something, they do not make a point of continuing to ask for it.<\/p>\n

At one point Nick Hodges was talking about a winter 2008 time-frame for Commodore. \u00a0News of the “no change” in priorities may have dribbled out in the meantime, but clearly I think it has passed some people by.<\/p>\n

I think that in many cases people already thought they were going to get 64-bit so perhaps didn’t think they needed to \u00a0keep banging on about it.<\/p>\n

The silence of the demand for 64-bit was perhaps deafening.<\/p>\n

FootNote<\/h2>\n

This has been only a (relatively) brief post, but noteworthy for being the 64th post published to my blog. \u00a0I felt that worth a mention given the subject matter.<\/p>\n

Sadly however my 100,000th visitor recently passed without fanfare or celebration. \u00a0Who-ever you were, thank you and I hope you enjoyed what-ever it was that you read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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