Comment by magicalhippo
8 hours ago
> This is Oxygene
For those who aren't familiar[1], it's part of RemObjects' Elements[2] suite, which allows you to use and mix several different popular languages in addition to the Pascal-based Oxygene across Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android etc.
That looks interesting. Pity they only have IDE's for Win/macOS though. :(
I mean, deploying on Linux is good, but not having an IDE that runs on Linux is a disappointment.
We've thought of it. Most customers are Win & Mac based. The vast majority of the IDE is shared code with only thin native UI wrappers (genuinely native, done the Right Way, aka non-Electron :D) and I admit to having been tempted to point an AI at the source and a copy of Qt and asking it to add a third one, a Linux GUI. We don't normally use AI for most of our coding, but I think with two prior examples and a thin layer only, it'd be a pretty cool experiment.