Embarcadero RAD Studio 12.2 Now Available
News|13 September 2024
Embarcadero Technologies announces the General Availability of RAD Studio 12.2, including Delphi 12.2 and C++Builder 12.2
RAD Studio 12.2 introduces support for AI-powered coding, a new Webstencils template library for web development, and new 64-bit Delphi compilers for large applications; C++Builder introduces a blazingly fast Clang-based compiler, modernised toolchain and further expanded Visual Assist integration.
New Features in RAD Studio 12.2
Smart CodeInsight: AI-powered coding – RAD Studio
New open architecture for AI plugins, with support for OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and Ollama. With Smart CodeInsight, users decide if and how to use AI, and can even create additional plugins, as long as it offers a public REST API.
A 64-bit version of Delphi Windows compilers – Delphi only
RAD Studio 12.2 includes the 64-bit binary version of Delphi Win32 and Win64 compilers for building extensive applications as a single executable. Available in Enterprise and Architect editions.
Modernised, faster Clang-based C++ compiler and Toolchain – C++Builder only
Update to new Clang-based C++ compiler for Win64 includes consumption and production of runtime packages, support for all RAD Studio component packages and parallelized CPU-saturating batch compilation for incredible compile performance
Editor-only focus mode and scrollbar annotations – RAD Studio
New Focus Mode leaves IDE with the editor(s) only. The new scrollbar annotations show, at a glance, the sections of the code that have been modified or have bookmarks, errors or warnings. Quality improvements to Split Views, Toolbar and HighDPI.
New WebStencils template library – RAD Studio
WebStencils, a server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files to WebBroker and RAD Server technologies for developing modern websites powered by data from RAD Studio server-side applications. It also acts as a foundation for the use of HTMX.
Expanded C++Builder Visual Assist integration – C++Builder only
Visual Assist integration expanded with three new refactorings – Introduce Variable, Create From Usage and Extract Method – along with significant quality and stability improvements.
Improved mobile development, external libraries linking – Delphi only
Improvements for Delphi mobile development, for both iOS and Android. Updated Linker for Apple platforms, options to Compress Dex files and Compress native library files in the toolchain, and ability to import Android libraries (‘.aar’ files) for Android.
Quality improvements: debugger performance – RAD Studio
Improvements to RAD Studio debuggers. Delphi debugger will correctly handle repeated inline variables with the same name, error handling and remote debugger communication timeouts.
Quality improvements: Delphi LSP and CodeInsight – Delphi only
Delphi LSP powering CodeInsight expanded with core groundwork and feature requests, and a 64-bit version of the DelphiLSP engine with no memory limits supporting large codebases. 64-bit version available in Enterprise and Architects editions.
Quality improvements: Delphi RTL, VCL, and FireMonkey – RAD Studio
Improvements to core Delphi RTL and both VCL and FireMonkey UI libraries. This includes new TParallelArray and TOrderedDictionary classes of RTL; frames scaling, FormsTabBar, styling and High DPI issues for VCL. There has also been intensive quality work in many areas of FMX.
Quality improvements: RAD Server performance – RAD Studio
WebStencils integration adds web development to RAD Server’s Web Service development capabilities; it also extends Swagger Documentation support with custom metadata, API filtering, YAML format, and Delphi multiline string literals.
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