Oxygene (programming language)
| Oxygene | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Paradigm | Imperative, object-oriented, functional, structured |
| Family | CLI–JVM-hosted, Pascal: Object Pascal |
| Developer | RemObjects Software |
| First appeared | 2005 |
| Platform | Common Language Infrastructure, Java, Cocoa, CPU-native, WebAssembly |
| OS | 32/64 bit: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | elementscompiler |
| Influenced by | |
| Delphi Object Pascal, C# | |
Oxygene (formerly named Chrome) is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software for Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), the Java platform, and Cocoa. Oxygene is based on the language Delphi Object Pascal, and influences from C#, Eiffel, Java, F#, and others.
Compared to the now deprecated Delphi.NET, Oxygene does not emphasize total backward compatibility, but is designed to be a "reinvention" of the language, leverage all the features and technologies provided by the .NET and Java virtual machine runtimes.
Oxygene is a commercial product and offers full integration into Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) on Windows, and its own IDE called Fire for use on macOS. Oxygene is one of six languages supported by the underlying Elements compiler toolchain, next to C#, Swift, Java, Go and Mercury (based on Visual Basic (.NET)).
From 2008 to 2012, RemObjects Software licensed its compiler and IDE technology to Embarcadero to be used as the backend compiler in their Embarcadero Prism product. Starting in the Fall of 2011, Oxygene became available in two separate editions, with the second edition adding support for the Java and Android runtimes. Starting with the release of XE4, Embarcadero Prism is no longer part of the RAD Studio SKU. Numerous support and upgrade paths for Prism customers exist to migrate to Oxygene. As of 2016, there is only one edition of Oxygene, which allows development on Windows or macOS, and which can create executables for Windows, Linux, WebAssembly .NET, iOS, Android, Java and macOS.