Any Borland Dephi programmers out there?
I just read that the current version of Delphi (version 7) is the last Win32 version to be produced. The next version, code named Octane, will be a purely .NET development environment. Versoin 7 will be supported for the forseeable future, since .NET is not going to be the dominant platform until the next version of Windows.
There's a limit to how disturbed I can be about that, but I bet if I look around there'll be much complaining.
Still, it seems Borland is pushing C# (and C#Builder) at the expense of Delphi. I should probably go ahead and make the switch, especially since there's an open source IDE called SharpDevelop that's at version 0.97 and looks pretty damn good. Since the .NET SDK is free too there's going to be little reason to pay cash when SharpDevelop hits version 1.0.
Later: SharpDevelop is throwing exceptions when I get to the form designer. Since I just upgraded from XP Home to XP Pro and am having weirdnesses in IE, I can't say whether it's SharpDevelop or me. On the other hand, Visual Studio .NET (the C# version) is happy.
