RAD Studio 10.2 “Tokyo” available now

RAD Studio 10.2 (code name “Tokyo”) and of course Delphi 10.2 a C++ Builder 10.2 has been released today. Most anticipated feature is new 64-bit Delphi compiler for Linux (server-side).

Short summary of what’s new in RAD Studio 10.2 could be find here. Just few of all new features are:

  • Delphi Linux compiler
    – server side only (no GUI apps)
    – 64-bit only
    – Ubuntu server and RedHat Enterprise Linux officially supported
    – probably working on other distros too (Debian and Fedora based)
    – only Intel CPU architecture, no ARM support yet (so no Raspberry Pi, sorry)
    – file system access, memory management
    – threading and Parallel Programming Libraries support
    – HTTP and REST libraries support for HTTP calls
  • Firemonkey
    – two new styles
    – many improvements, bug fixes
    – multi-threading support for TBitmap, TCanvas and TContext3D
    – improvements to TWebBrowser for Windows
  • VCL
    – improved High DPI support
  • IDE
    – some UI tweaks – rearrangement of View menu

via Marco Tech Blog