Yesterday evening we hit the publish button for Quartex Pascal v1!
It has been a long, long road with too much work to list, but we feel that its reached a level of maturity that makes it usable by everyone.
It is easy to forget just how much tooling is involved, not just in the IDE or RTL, but also on the back-end. Our back-end system is written in QTX itself, dealing with everything from the internal build process to licenses to everything else under the sun.
Well, we hope everyone has a great time with v1.0 -- and help us spread the word!
Hello,
Where can I read the documentation?
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It is in the IDE. The "documentation" button, last on the toolbar to the right.
The docs are being worked on every day here, so it will grow more and more, but it has the essentials for digging into QTX 🙂
I'm disappointed with the price and licensing.Â
And no, I'm not disputing all the work that has gone into it. I actually *want* to like your product. But TMS Web Core comes out cheaper than your first (fairly limited) version.
The entire Delphi community knows what great support TMS offers. Add to that all their FNC components and well...
I will experiment with the 15 day trial, and hope for the best. But I really can't (yet) make a personal case for the expense of continuing.
Fair enough. We are not forcing anyone.
There are two different philosophies between Webcore and QTX. We work closer to the metal with focus on JS integration, while TMS is more focused on having a delphi web environment. They also have a couple of years head start.
The first release now is more "the foundation" stone if you will, and we will issue hotfixes and updates almost weekly for a while (one due tomorrow).
When mistakes and minor issues are taken care of, then we can focus more on the widgets / controls and pull in things like database grids and so fourth.
There is a lot of functionality in the IDE and RTL that doesnt get attention yet. Things like ragnarok, being able to sculpt your own message protocols and the IDE generates code for you. That is very valuable when you are making a clustered back-end with async connections (or rest for that matter). I think remobjects charges $250 (or something like that) for their editor which does similar things for delphi.
Once we push v1.1 with non-visual components and drag & drop database, ragnarok will make a lot of sense. The same goes for the desktop environment.
Our goal is not just to give you some prefabricated controls, but to build a tool that covers "full stack", meaning back-end and front-end, while also integrating directly with established JS frameworks.
