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VOTEIntroducing Mercury
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RemObjects Mercury breathes new life into the Visual Basic.NET ecosystem, future-proofing the language and taking it beyond .NET to new platforms. … Read more
4 years ago
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Elements: It Goes to 11!
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With this weeks Stable release of Elements, build .2627, we’ve increased the major version number from 10 to 11 (insert a Spın̈al Tap joke here). This is to celebrate the newest addition to our language… … Read more
4 years ago
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Behind the Build(s) — .2605
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On Friday we published Elements build .2605, the first “Stable” channel build of the year, and wrapping together a lot of great changes and improvements from the past couple months of previews.Let’s have a look… … Read more
4 years ago
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Behind the Build — .2585
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Welcome back to Behind the Build, where we take a look at some of the new changes and improvements in the latest Elements build.Build .2585 marks the 59th (!) and last Elements release of 2020,… … Read more
5 years ago
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Behind the Build — .2577
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“Behind The Build” is a new blog series where I will try to give some background information on some of the highlights of the weekly change log.As you probably know, we ship a new build… … Read more
5 years ago
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The Apple M1 Chip
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Yesterday, Apple annoucned its new M1 chip, and three new Macs that will use it, shipping next week. We all expected great things from the move to Apple Silicon, first teased at WWDC, but if… … Read more
5 years ago
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Talking About Visual Basic…
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This past weekend, I had the great honor to join Fellippe on the QB64 Podcast, QB64 Report, to talk about the past and future of BASIC, Elements, and our new currently-in-development Mercury front-end for the… … Read more
5 years ago
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Macs, Apple Silicon and You
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Interesting day at Apple Park yesterday, as the first online-only WWDC kicked off with many exciting announcements across all of Apple’s platforms.There’s a lot to digest, but for this post, which i’ll be updating over… … Read more
5 years ago
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Importing Go Projects
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One of the main use cases of the Go language with Elements is to use functionality from one of the countless existing Go libraries in your own project. Of course, it is always possible to… … Read more
5 years ago
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DA SQL Comes to Delphi
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I’m super thrilled to announce that we just shipped a new Stable Channel release for Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10. Build .1481 brings a range of enhancements and improvements, but there are two that… … Read more
5 years ago
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Life in Time of COVID-19
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Hi everyone.I wanted to give you a brief update on the state of things here at RemObjects Software as we’re getting further into this year of 2020 that is not unfolding as any of us… … Read more
5 years ago
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The “Go” Language comes to Elements: Announcing RemObjects Gold
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Use Go in your projects for .NET, Cocoa, Android, Java, WebAssembly — and other platforms. … Read more
5 years ago
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Automatic SDK Downloads
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Last week’s Elements build added a small but pretty nifty feature to EBuild: automatic download of new SDKs.As you might know, for the Cocoa and Island platforms, Elements uses a set of pre-imported .fx files… … Read more
5 years ago
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Unicode and You
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In Elements, the native String type on all target platforms uses UTF16 encoding. UTF16 is a great middle-ground, because 16-bits are enough to represent most common Unicode code points, including not just Latin letters, symbols… … Read more
6 years ago
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Trailing Closures in Oxygene and C#
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Last week’s build of Elements, .2447, brings a major new language feature that I personally am very excited about to Oxygene, and also as a language extension to our RemObjects C# dialect: trailing closures.What are… … Read more
6 years ago
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