Coming from a Windows-centric ecosystem, the idea of Linux was both scary and perplexing at the same time. But the rewards have been – and continue to be – too great to ignore. Especially for

In Elements, the native String type on all target platforms uses UTF16 encoding. UTF16 is a great middle-ground, because 16-bits are enough to represent most common Unicode code points, including not just Latin

Last week's build of Elements, .2447, brings a major new language feature that I personally am very excited about to Oxygene, and also as a language extension to our RemObjects C# dialect: trailing

Embedded computing has been around for as long as computers have existed, but prior to the IoT (Internet of Things) revolution, it remained something of a black-art: a field of computing only available

Hey everyone.Over the past couple of weeks, we've been working on some new "introduction" videos for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract. These videos aim at giving a quick overview for getting started

macOS Catalina is coming soon, and with it the requirement for Notarization for apps shipped outside the App Store. Notarization is an extension to Apples GateKeeper; it was introduced optionally for Mojave last

Android app development is split into two, very distinct worlds.On the one side, there's the Android SDK, which is what the bulk of Android apps is being developed in. The SDK is

Elements RTL, our (optional) cross-platform abstraction library, provides a rich API for working with filenames and and paths.For one, it replicates the System.IO.Path class from .NET, which provides many APIs

Image for Apple's 2019 iPhone eventToday Apple held their annual September event. It used to be the iPod event, and eventually became the iPhone event we know now. Today we got a look

In this week's build of Elements, we've shipped a very first tentative part of what, eventually, will become the/an official package manager for EBuild in general, and for Elements in particular.What's

Some time ago, we've introduced Import Projects to Elements. These let you import a set of C header files for Island and Cocoa. An import project produces an .fx that can be used

Back in March, we began shipping the first preview builds of Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10, the next generation of our popular two frameworks for building remote services and for multi-tier data

In my previous blog post, I presented an example of universal code and outlined some guidelines on how to best approach writing code that can be deployed on every target without modification. I

A couple blog posts back I gave you a quick peek at our support for UIKit for Mac (a.k.a. Project Catalyst, or Marzipan) in Elements. It's really easy to get your

In today's Elements build, .2417, we're extending await support to methods with closure callbacks – such as the many Cocoa APIs. "Async/Await" is a great pattern, pioneered by C# and adopted

Today's weekly build of Elements .2415 includes support for building UIKit for Mac applications with Oxygene, C#, Swift and Java.In case you have been living under a rock the past year or

If you're using the Elements compiler for your iOS development, you can take advantage of a special additional behavior of the if #available syntax in Elements' Swift implementation: in addition to making any

Apple just finished the introductory keynote to its annual World Wide Developer Conference, and while the keynote always stays pretty high-level and consumer-oriented, there's already a lot to unpack here, while we wait