Is Delphi Prism superior to RemObjects Oxygene in any significant respect? [closed]

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We have two separate tags:

• https://stackoverflow.com/tags/oxygene/info
• https://stackoverflow.com/tags/delphi-prism/info

They read like those are different products, more so like Prism is a superset of Oxygen and the latter is "just compiler" and Prism to Oxygene is like Lazarus to FPC.

Maybe that was the picture somewhen. But looking at Prism withdrawal, i wonder if there still are some things in Prism that are missed from Oxygene ?

If not, then there is probably a time to make oxygene the One True Tag and make delphi-prism just an alias to Oxygene ?

Answer 1

It is actually the other way around. Prism was just the .NET "flavor" of the Oxygene compiler. Oxygene includes everything that Prism did, plus a whole lot more. Oxygene also includes the Java flavor (for Android development) as well as the soon to be released "Cocoa" edition which is currently code named "Nougat" (for Mac and iOS development).

When Delphi Prism was first released there was some existing .NET resources that were bundled with it, but they deprecated and removed shortly after. Most of the Delphi Prism and Prism releases were solely a subset of Oxygene.

The difference you read in the descriptions comes down to branding. Technically there is none.

In an unrelated note, if you find yourself doing both Oxygene for .NET and Delphi development then you should check out Hydra too.

Answer 2

We're in the process of getting the two tags merged, yes. fwiw, Prism is not and never has been a super-set to Oxygene. Prism is/was the exact same thing as Oxygene for .NET.

(that said, this discussion would really belong on meta?)