What is Fire based on and written in?

Fire is not based on an existing IDE framework (such as how we use the Visual Studio Shell on Windows); it was built from the ground up here at RemObjects and is written in 100% Elements code, mostly RemObjects C#, using the native Cocoa edition of our compiler.

And most of the work writing Fire has been done in Fire.

Fire itself is a completely native app that always feels at home on the Mac. Underneath the hood, it shares the same compiler and "IDE smarts" engine that Elements uses everywhere, written in cross-platform managed code and hosted using our internal Marzipan and Infrared™ technologies.

Fire supports macOS 12 Monterey and later, and is ready for macOS 26 Tahoe.

What platforms and languages does Fire support?

Fire supports all six of our Elements languages – Oxygene, C#, Swift, Java, Go and Mercury. It supports each of those languages for all of our target platforms: .NET/Mono, Cocoa, and Java/Android and Island.

This makes Fire interesting not just to Cocoa developers, but also to:

• .NET developers wanting to work on their existing .NET projects natively on the Mac
• Swift developers wanting to leverage their new favorite language on Android or .NET

and many others.

What are the requirements for running Fire?

As mentioned above, Fire runs under Monterey and later. There are no external dependencies required to run Fire itself. You can just download Fire.app and run it.

There are some prerequisites, depending on the platforms you want to develop for. For example, if you want to build Java and Android apps, you will want to have the Java 7 or 8 SDK and the Android SDK installed; if you want to run/debug .NET/Mono apps, you will need to have Mono 3.x or later installed. A recent version of Xcode must be installed to build iOS and macOS apps.

You can read more about setting up for your platform(s) here.

Where can I get Fire?

As of the release of Elements 8.3, Fire preview is now officially available. You can download it as a free trial (for Oxygene and C#), and use it completely for free with our free Silver compiler, here.

Fire will work with your existing Elements or Suite licenses to unlock the full Oxygene and C# functionality.

If you have an up-to-date subscription to Elements, Oxygene or RemObjects C# or a Suite Subscription for .NET, Cocoa or Java, you can also get more frequent and recent beta updates on our beta portal. (If you're not a licensed Elements user yet, or if your subscription has lapsed, then now is a great time to change that).

Fire is still evolving rapidly, with improvements happening almost every week, so we recommend checking out the betas.

Where can I learn more about getting started with Fire?

Your best place to get started with Fire, and Elements in general, is our documentations site at docs.elementscompiler.com.

In particular, check out the Fire section and our "First App" Tutorials.

Beta Feedback and Bug-Reporting

Please use our dedicated Fire forum on Talk to provide feedback and ask questions about Fire. Of course you can also always contact us directly at info@remobjects.com.