Unicode and You 15 days ago

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 and accents, but also most other commonly used character sets such as Greek, Cyrillic, or [ Read more ]

Trailing Closures in Oxygene and C# 22 days ago

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 trailing closures?Let's start with some background. Many APIs you work with every day [ Read more ]

Elements for IoT and Embedded a month ago

Embedded computing has been around for as long as computers have existed, but prior to the IoT (Internet of Things) revolution, it remained something of a black-art: a field of computing only available for electrical engineers and highly specialized developers. But with the release of the Raspberry PI back in [ Read more ]

New Intro Videos for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 1 months ago

Hey everyone.Over the past couple of weeks, we've been working on some new "introduction" videos for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract. These videos aim at giving a quick overview for getting started with each of the products, on each of the two major development platforms: .NET and Delphi.If [ Read more ]

Remoting SDK and Data Abstract Builds .1457 1 months ago

I'm happy to announce that last week we shipped new stable releases for Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10, as well as an interim update to Hydra 6.2.Build .1457 marks the second Stable Channel release of RO/DA since switching to version 10 and it rolls up a [ Read more ]