marc hoffman

Hi everyone. I'm overjoyed to announce the immediate availability of Elements Twelve, the next major version of our multi-language, multi-platform compiler and development suite. What's in a new version number? As you know,

With the just-announced Elements Twelve, we have added a major and long-requested new feature to our native-code "Island" platform: support for the Embarcadero Delphi class/object model and – with that – the ability to

We've added two cool new language features to Oxygene this week: Required PropertiesProperties in Oxygene can now be marked with the required directive. The new directive addition mandates explicit initialization of the properties

This week's build of Elements gives a first peek at an exciting new feature we've been working on for the Fire IDE: CodeBot. CodeBot is a smart coding assistant that can help you

Hi everyone. Today's build of Elements 11, build .2771, brings a first glance at two new experimental features: the ability to run the Elements compiler on .NET Core and — more excitingly — the Water

What if you could save money on your RemObjects Software product licenses when referring others to check out the products you use and love every day? Today we are happy to introduce the

Today Delphi is 27 years old. Wow. I remember taking a half-day off work (I was doing my year of social services at an Institute for Worker's Safety in Dortmund, Germany, developing an

I'm a big fan of Classic ASP.NET for web development, and (among other things) our website is built 100% on ASP.NET with Elements. But, as you might have heard or found

Actors are (next to async/await) the big thing for Swift 5.5 this year. If, like me, reading the official spec makes you want to kill yourself slowly, and even the WWDC2021

Hi everyone. I'm happy to announce that today we shipped major new "Stable" channel builds for Remoting SDK and Data Abstract (10.0.0.1515) and Hydra (6.4). These new

Join me and my former colleague Jim McKeeth next Tuesday, June 8, for our webinar on using WebAssembly with Elements — with a specific focus on Oxygene and Delphi developers. Jim and i will

We are thrilled to announce the release of Elements 11, and with it its most  interesting new feature: the introduction of Mercury as the sixth language supported by our compiler and tool chain.

With this week's Stable release of Elements, build .2627, we've increased the major version number from 10 to 11 (insert a Spın̈al Tap joke here). This is to celebrate the newest addition

On Friday we published Elements build .2605, the first "Stable" channel build of the year, and wrapping together a lot of great changes and improvements from the past couple months of previews. Let's

Welcome back to Behind the Build, where we take a  look at some of the new changes and improvements in the latest Elements build. Build .2585 marks the 59th (!) and last Elements release

"Behind The Build" is a new blog series where I will try to give some background information on some of the highlights of the weekly change log. As you probably know, we ship

Yesterday, Apple annoucned its new M1 chip, and three new Macs that will use it, shipping next week. We all expected great things from the move to Apple Silicon, first teased at WWDC,

This past weekend, I had the great honor to join Fellippe on the QB64 Podcast, QB64 Report, to talk about the past and future of BASIC, Elements, and our new currently-in-development Mercury front-end

Interesting day at Apple Park yesterday, as the first online-only WWDC kicked off with many exciting announcements across all of Apple's platforms. There's a lot to digest, but for this post, which i'll

One of the main use cases of the Go language with Elements is to use functionality from one of the countless existing Go libraries in your own project. Of course, it is always

I'm super thrilled to announce that we just shipped a new Stable Channel release for Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10. Build .1481 brings a range of enhancements and improvements, but there are

Hi everyone. I wanted to give you a brief update on the state of things here at RemObjects Software as we're getting further into this year of 2020 that is not unfolding as

In early 2019, we started on a new project within the Elements compiler, code-named "Gold." About a year later, we're now happy to announce the official availability of RemObjects Gold, our fifth and

Last week's Elements build added a small but pretty nifty feature to EBuild: automatic download of new SDKs. As you might know, for the Cocoa and Island platforms, Elements uses a set of

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