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marc hoffman

marc hoffman

Chief Architect and CEO here at RemObjects Software. Project Manager for Elements and lead developer of Fire, our awesome development environment for the Mac.

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Out Now: GitBrowser for Linux

Out Now: GitBrowser for Linux

I'm happy to introduce the newest member of the GitBrowser family: GitBrowser for Linux. GitBrowser for Linux is out of preview and now available for everyone as a free download from

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
1 min read
Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux

Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux

This week, I am thrilled to formally announce the newest addition to our Elements family: Earth. As you might know, until today we had two versions of our development environment for Elements: It

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
6 min read
Everthing New in GitBrowser This Week

Everthing New in GitBrowser This Week

Sooo many new things in today's GitBrowser build .309; it's hard to even know where to begin... Let's start with the biggest ones. Everything has feature parity

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
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    CodeBot
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Native Merging and Conflict Resolving in GitBrowser

Native Merging and Conflict Resolving in GitBrowser

This week is another big week for GitBrowser. Among a whole bunch of new features (and a new platform!) discussed in this separate post, GitBrowser has gained native support for resolving merge conflicts

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
6 min read
News of the Week

News of the Week

We shipped a virtual smorgasbord of stuff last Friday. Let's have a look. Units of Measure This is one of the coolest language features we ever added to Oxygene, and it

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
3 min read
Units of Measure

Units of Measure

This week's Elements build adds a major new feature that I personally have been dreaming of adding to Oxygene for well over a decade; we just never got around to it.

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
7 min read
What's New in GitBrowser

What's New in GitBrowser

We only shipped GitBrowser for Mac earlier this year (after it being an internal tool here at RemObjects for several years), but it has already evolved a lot since. Let's take

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
8 min read
Elements .3085

Elements .3085

The main theme this week is that CodeBot has evolved further, from a reactive chat assistant toward something more proactive, media-capable, and host-aware. In particualar for the upcoming Campfire, this shows

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
1 min read
New this Week

New this Week

Elements 13 shipped just last week, but we already have a major new round of features and enhancements landing today. Fire & Water * CodeBot got broader model strategy/profile work: deep reasoning profile,

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
2 min read
CodeBot v3: Secret Agent Man

CodeBot v3: Secret Agent Man

With last week's release of Elements 13, we shipped what is probably the largest and most significant update to CodeBot since its inception: CodeBot v3. CodeBot v3 is not just an

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
7 min read
Fields

Fields

This weeks Elememts build brings three new and exciting language features to the Oxygene language – and they all center around a single new keyword: field. Field-Backed Properties Things started off by bringing

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
3 min read
Raw Strings in Oxygene

Raw Strings in Oxygene

This week's build of Elements 12, build .3047, introduces a major new feature for the Oxygene language: Raw Strings. Raw strings are a new way of declaring string literals that make

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
5 min read
Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

From all of us here at RemObjects Software, we would like to wish you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year! 2025 has been an incredible year for the company and

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    marc hoffman
1 min read
The Theme of the Day

The Theme of the Day

This weeks build of Water, our Windows IDE for Elements adds an exciting new visual feature that many of you have been asking for for a long time: themes! On the Fire side,

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
2 min read
Introducing: GitBrowser

Introducing: GitBrowser

I am super thrilled to announce the release of our next brand new product here at RemObjects: GitBrowser. GitBrowser is a native Git version control client for the Mac that aims to be

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
7 min read
aapt, aapt 🎶

aapt, aapt 🎶

This week is the Android release for Elements. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that over the past couple of years, we have been neglecting the Android toolchain a bit. Google

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
4 min read
iOS and macOS Toolchain Improvements

iOS and macOS Toolchain Improvements

I have spent the bulk of the past two weeks working on two personal side projects – built in Elements, of course. As is usually the case, this gave me ample opportunity to identify

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
8 min read
macOS 26 Tahoe Brings a Fresh New Look for Fire

macOS 26 Tahoe Brings a Fresh New Look for Fire

This week, Apple is releasing macOS 26 "Tahoe," the next major version of its Mac operating system. Tahoe brings a huge visual design change to macOS, and we've taken

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    marc hoffman
2 min read
Behind the Build – .2997

Behind the Build – .2997

It's been a while since I've written one of these, but this week's Preview build of Elements, numbered at .2997, has such an astounding amount of stuff

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
5 min read
[Codable]

[Codable]

The new [Codable] aspect makes it easy to add Json and Xml serialization to your classes, without a single line of custom code.

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    marc hoffman
3 min read
CodeBot, v2

CodeBot, v2

It's been almost two years since we introduced CodeBot for Fire, and it's just received a huge update!

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
3 min read
Announcing Elements Twelve

Announcing Elements Twelve

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

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
3 min read
Island/Delphi: Using Delphi APIs from Elements

Island/Delphi: Using Delphi APIs from Elements

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

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
9 min read
Two New Oxygene Language Features

Two New Oxygene Language Features

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

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
2 min read
Introducing CodeBot

Introducing CodeBot

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

  • marc hoffman
    marc hoffman
4 min read
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