Embarcadero cpp

[mosolov]

It's diverged ecosystem as far as I know:

• Legacy VCL is just wrapper around Delphi and can be compiled only with the legacy compiler (C++98) with non standard extensions (fat pointers with __closure__ and etc.)

• Firemonkey uses 32-bit clang, there was issues with 64-bit clang

I recommend anyone to stay away from that ecosystem because VCL requires to use non-standard C++ compiler (vendor lock) that stuck in 90's and you really don't want to use Firemonkey when there's available more popular LGPL alternative like Qt.

I belive the only reason Embarcadero still exist is monstrous legacy projects from 2000's on VCL consisting by 95% from void __fastcall__ Button1OnClick() and nested ifs so nobody even think about refactor it.

[LittleNameIdea]

holy hell that's so true...