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Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

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Why This Matters

The release of Delphi 13 Community Edition marks a significant step in making advanced native application development tools accessible to students, hobbyists, and small teams for free. With new language features and platform support, it empowers a broader range of developers to create cross-platform applications efficiently, fostering innovation and growth in the tech industry.

Key Takeaways

Embarcadero is pleased to announce the availability of Delphi 13 Community Edition, the latest free edition of our professional Delphi development environment.

Delphi 13 Community Edition is based on Delphi 13 Florence and brings the Community Edition forward from version 12.1. This gives students, hobbyists, independent developers, and eligible startups access to the Delphi language and framework improvements delivered in versions 12.2, 12.3, and 13.0—including updated support for today’s mobile platforms.

What Is Delphi Community Edition?

Delphi Community Edition is a full-featured, free edition of Delphi for building native applications with the Delphi language. It includes a professional IDE, visual designers, integrated compilers and debuggers, the VCL framework for Windows development, and the FireMonkey framework for creating native applications from a shared codebase across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

It is designed for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and small teams that meet the Community Edition license requirements.

What’s New Since Delphi 12.1?

Moving from Delphi 12.1 Community Edition to Delphi 13 Community Edition delivers a substantial collection of language, IDE, framework, and platform improvements.

New Delphi Language Features

Delphi 13 introduces several useful additions to the Delphi language, available across the supported target platforms:

A new conditional expression, or ternary operator, implemented with the if keyword

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