C++Builder
More info
- Creator
- Borland
- Released
- Owner
- Embarcadero Technologies
- Type
- IDE
- License
- Proprietary
Borland's C++ answer to Delphi: drag components onto a form, double-click, write C++ in the event handler.
Released in 1997 on the same component library as Delphi — the VCL, written in Object Pascal but callable from C++. It was a technical oddity that worked surprisingly well: the same form designer, the same third-party components, but with C++ as the language for developers who needed it or already had the codebase.
Through the 2000s Borland lost ground to Visual Studio and was broken up; the tools ended up at Embarcadero in 2008. The product survives with the FireMonkey framework for macOS, iOS and Android, used mostly by companies still maintaining Windows applications written in the 1990s. The compiler is Clang-based these days.