Like a phoenix from the ashes. Or I guess you could say the reports of C++Builder's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Either way this is great news for C++ developers.
Borland just published an Open Letter to the C++Builder Community where they announced "The next version of C++Builder will be part of the Delphi IDE family." Allen Bauer has an addendum to this as well. This continuation of the C++Builder product line should make a lot of people happy, especially for all those developers who signed the community letter to Borland [PDF] back in October.
So we will have a single IDE that does Delphi.Win32, Delphi.net, C++, C# and any other .net language. I wonder if there are plans to add Java into the mix. It would be nice if Borland added specific support for other languages, maybe Python.
Don't know if anyone else remembers Charlotte, but it was a language Borland started developing back in 2002 specifically for web services. Someone asked about the status of the language a while back, turns out it has been shelved in favor of the .net work (I think that was the reason.) I would suspect with this trend if they bring it back it will be in the same IDE too. Probably be called Charlotte.net. Iin the immortal words of the Wombat "All is one!"
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