LinuxPlanet: Kylix 3: Borland’s Linux Delphi and C++ RAD is a Winner

“If EMACS is your idea of a programming environment, Kylix will
come as a shock. Many developers, weaned on Borland programming
tools since Kylix’s ancient ancestor 1983’s Turbo Pascal on CP/M,
will find that Kylix brings all the usual visual and rapid
application development goodies they expect. Developers who cut
their teeth on Windows programming environments like Microsoft’s
Visual Studio and has been hesitant about jumping into Linux
because of its lack of similar tools no longer have any
excuses.

“While Kylix on Linux has been around since March 2001, it
hasn’t been the most popular development environment simply because
it only supported the Delphi language. While Delphi, essentially
Pascal revamped and updated with objects, is very popular with
Windows programmers, it’s never been that popular on Linux. This is
simply because Linux, and the Unix family before it, has always
been the haven of C and C++ programmers.

“Now, however, Kylix answers the needs of most Linux programmers
by fully supporting C++ with the same development environment. The
result is a RAD that should quickly become Linux’s most popular
integrated development environment (IDE)..”

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