[DUG] Opinion wanted - is the upgrade from XE5 to XE6 worthwhile

[Jolyon Smith]

But Leigh, the point is that an Oxygene developer does not need *Oxygene
specific* support.

When I was developing my battery widget I was using the same resources that
a Java Android developer would use, which are plentiful (ditto my
excursions into Cocoa).


As some sort of idea, you might look at # of tagged questions on
StackOverflow as a (crude) metric:

Android: 500,000+
iOS: 250,000+
Delphi: 27,000+
Xamarin: 3,400+
FireMonkey: 880+
Oxygene: 101+

Initially this does not look good for Oxygene.  But a high proportion of
those 750,000 Android and iOS questions will be just as helpful to an
Oxygene developer (and Xamarin for that matter).  Not so much for a
FireMonkey developer.

Of the three, a FireMonkey developer is the most on their own.


As for availability of skills, RemObjects and Xamarin have similar
advantages - both are (or in the case of Xamarin, can be) Visual Studio
based so experience with the IDE isn't an issue.  With Xamarin and
Hydrogene, language skills aren't an issue now that you can call on the
pool of C# skills.  Framework skills ?  Well, again we're talking about
Android SDK and Cocoa (or .NET), not some proprietary cross platform
framework (although there are elements of this with Xamarin I believe).

Again, Delphi with FireMonkey romps home with the "Rocking Horse Droppings"
award.  ;)


On 11 July 2014 15:51, Leigh Wanstead <leigh.wanstead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jolyon,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I think the issue with RemObjects Oxygene is developer community size.
> Delphi is already a minority compare to .net developer population. Then RemObjects
> Oxygene for android, ios? I think that as rare as hen's teeth :-)
>
> If a project has no developer to hire using a tech, what will happen? :-)
>
> Anyway, by doing RemObjects Oxygene, everything is same learning curve
> like native platform except change the language to be pascal. But you have
> far small community to ask questions and get answers. Answers are not ready
> for you on the internet, you have to wait someone to answer it first. I
> already feel that xamarin developer community is too small compare to
> asp.net mvc, desktop .net etc.
>
> Regards
> Leigh
>
>
>
>
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