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Delphi Compiler Architect, Danny Thorpe, discusses on the existence of VCL for .NET.
In addition, Danny might have neglected to mention that if you develop for Delphi, your code can be targeted to Linux, Win32, or .NET.
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.