On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote:
On Apr 25, 2018, at 8:42 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
'make it competitive with new entries in the market' is not a goal of the
free pascal team.
This is a hobby project for most devs. Monetary gain is not a goal.
Probably sounds like an anachronism in this day and age, but there you are...
That’s what I thought initially. I understand Pascal is a hobby for many
here and they’re doing their best to keep the language alive in the face
of an ever changing market. Personally I just want Pascal to be the best
it can be so I can continue to use it in the future without making more
and more compromises in productivity.
I want the same for pascal.
But I really still need to see convincing evidence that language features
contribute to productivity.
Available libraries for common programming tasks - and I mean this on a
high-level
level - are infinitely more important, so I don't need to get down to the
gory details of many tasks:
* Creating a PDF.
* Creating a good-looking report from Data.
* Have an API that reads google protocol data.
* A good ORM/OPF.
* Reading a smartcard.
* Access a Google,Facebook,Twitter, MS or what-have-you-not REST API.
* A wizard that makes a Data entry form based on a TDataset or object.
* Classes to make a REST API.
* Classes to make/consume a SOAP service.
* Code that transforms a JSON structure to object classes plus the code to
* read/write the JSON.
These are things that make me win time.
a low-level feature such as Memory management is really the least of my worries.
Use TComponent or reference counted interfaces if such things bothers you.
Michael.
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