2017-02-28 21:50 GMT+01:00 Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> :
> Records - well, I use them like they were defined > in Delphi 7 and earlier. I really don't see the need for Records with > Methods (ie: TP Objects) and such. > Go with modern times! It's the 21st century now ;-) (For inspiration have e.g. a look at Julia [1] and how they develop incl. syntax changes. - Many discussions/decisions are being done using github issues, here e.g. a quite fundamental keyword change [2, 3]. As you see in this issue, it is often not easy to find *the* good solution, but it's great, how opinions have a place to flow in and can be considered/integrated by the core or other talented devs. - There are branches: people can help but are also told to wait if the timing is not good [4]. - There is a manual, stdlib, devdoc [5] which gets you started quickly and one can easily contribute small things like typos. - A one-stop discourse based forum [6] which is a joy to use and much easier than e.g. the multitude of fpc-maillist, lazarus-forum, newpascal-/mse-<don't-know-atm>-lists. - There's a one-stop binary download location [7] and/or install master from source, just a ~ 'git clone, make install' away (llvm is not as fast as fpc though;). - In general uniform syntax (even with `end` like in pascal:) which doesn't make you guess which style/convention to choose. - Organisations which integrate people interested in a specific subject. e.g. [8]. - Package management is currently a bit 'suboptimal' but a new one is being developed, here the propositions [9] where interested people can give input in the design phase, and later while implementing. --- Of course one cannot and should not compare !!! Julia doesn't have a 25+ year long legacy with many (partly a bit obscure) platforms to conserve and maintain. (It 'stole' the compiler, à la MSElang;-) It has developers which work since ~7 years ~professionally and there is quite some funding and many many contributors. But as a maybe longterm inspiration, why not? Maybe some parts are worth stealing? And, with tool-support, maybe possible to steal?) (Ähem, I digressed a bit from the Delphi 7 record topic... I am sorry (more so, considering I forked from you)) (I agree with what you wrote about 'polluting pascal code'. But what can one do? For me, atm, it is super-important that fpc is very compatible with delphi, e.g. generics (and that they work well). Thus, very grateful to people who contribute such things). [1]: http://julialang.org, [2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/19157, [3]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20418, [4]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/20885, [5]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/doc/src, [6]: http://discourse.julialang.org/ (discourse has mailling list integration nowadays...), [7]: http://julialang.org/downloads/, [8]: https://github.com/JuliaGPU, [9]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Juleps/blob/master/Pkg3.md
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