<div dir="ltr">@Leigh / Steve,<br><br>The idea of Microsoft buying Delphi has come up numerous times over the years. I don't remember any hangings. :)<br><br><br>There was a time when it might have made sense in terms of plugging a "native code gap". But that was when Microsoft was "betting the farm" on managed .NET and had more or less abandoned C++.. But they turned that particular corner a long time ago. Their C++ compiler is no longer withering on the vine and with .NET Native there is simply no compelling need or reason for Microsoft to add Delphi to their stable.<br><br>For cross platform they have .NET Core for the major desktop and server platforms and Xamarin for mobile. If they really wanted to add Pascal to their language line-up they could simply put an Objject Pascal front end onto their compiler stack. There is no need to "acquire" the user base of an otherwise wholly incompatible technology. They don't need the revenue and if the idea is that they should acquire it simply to open it up and make it free/cheaper then this entirely negates the "purchasing the revenue" motive in the first place.<br><br>They can acquire the user base simply by offering much cheaper and more capable technology. Which they do.<br><br>Which leaves them wanting to do it simply out of the goodness of their heart. Why ?<br><br><br>On the other hand, if they really did simply want to add a Pascal capability to their compiler line-up, RemObjects would be a far more appropriate acquisition since - like Xamarin before them - they are already part of the Visual Studio eco-system and have highly compatible technology.<br><br>It even sort of fits alongside Xamarin, with Xamarin offering a (mostly) single-source cross-platform abstraction but with RemObejcts Elements providing "bare metal" compatability (for C# as well as Object Pascal and Swift) for both Android and iOS and even WinRT.<br><br><br>It would be awesome if I could start a new Xamarin project and choose to implement using Object Pascal !!<br><br>We can but dream. :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 April 2016 at 08:39, Steve Peacocke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@peacocke.net" target="_blank">steve@peacocke.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Leigh Wanstead wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think it will be great if Microsoft buy Delphi</div></blockquote><div> </div></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Leigh,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A few years ago that would have gotten you hung from the nearest nearest tree branch, however today I find myself agreeing with you.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><br>Steve Peacocke<br></div></div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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