Quote Originally Posted by noeska
The delphi ide is .net . So with mono it should be possible ... The drawback on that mono supposedly leaks memory ...
This is not true. There are currently 2 Delphi products (well 3 if you count Delphi for PHP) 'Delphi Prism' is a .NET platform, Delphi aka 'Delphi for Win32' it's self is not, it is Win32 only.

What Embarcadero (owners of Code Gear) is doing here is taking their existing Delphi for Win32 and porting it to Mac OS X and Linux. Yes, with .NET you *can* use Mono to run your programs on other systems, but not everyone wants to do that. And that's considering that they want .NET at all either. Delphi for Mac OS X and Delphi for Linux will be for those that want their programs to run naively, much like it does on Win32, on both Mac OS X and Linux systems. And increasing growth in Free Pascal's acceptance and usage proves this.