marc hoffman

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

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

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

I'm happy to announce that last week we shipped new stable releases for Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10, as well as an interim update to Hydra 6.2. Build .1457 marks the

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

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

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

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

Our Elements tool chain allows software development for a wide range of Platforms. Over the past couple of weeks, we have streamlined how we group and talk about these platforms, going away from

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

We've finally gotten around to implementing a long-requested feature for our website, and that is access to the status and progress of bugs that were logged into our system on your behalf. In

One of the strengths of the Elements compiler has always been that it allows full and unfettered access to platform APIs and all the third party libraries out there for the platform you

Hot on the heels of our Introduction to Fire video from two weeks ago, we've now also published the matching Introduction to Water, our development environment for Windows. The video (embedded below) can

We don't often talk about our website, remobjects.com, here on this blog, but next to our actual products, it is of course a crucial part of the user experience for you, our

After a few years of hiatus for RemObjects TV, we're finally ramping up our video production again, and I'm very pleased to share our first new "modern" Elements video, which gives a quick