marc hoffman

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

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