On 4/18/2021 11:55 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 17/04/2021 10:09 pm, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
but Delphi compatbility is more
important here, thus the default is a warning and not an error.
How is this beneficial? The compiler should help the developer, but here
it was decided that it's beneficial for the program to crash at runtime,
because follow the broken Delphi compiler is more important! *shrug*
Such decisions really make me worry about the future of FPC. It ends up
being NO better than Delphi, so why bother using FPC then. Stick to
Delphi instead.
If you're willing to pay for me to obtain a delphi license, then I'd
happily switch. Seeing as how they charge over a thousand dollars even
during their supposed sales, I have no interest in spending that kind of
money for an environment that FPC offers for free. That means I don't
have to spend my limited income on a license for a program I use a few
times a year.
Admittedly, part of the reason I use it so rarely is because I really
need to dig into it's gui and tcp capabilities (I program from the
ocmmand prompt, but being able to generate gui screens on the fly would
be nice). I know Delphi can do this, but the last time I asked them
about pricing, they told me it'd cost $1000 for just delphi 7, and that
only costed $995 when it first came out, nearly 20 years ago. I refuse
to support that kind of price gouging, even if I could afford it.
But, as I said, if you're willing to foot the bill, I'd happily use it,
as it does indeed have (some) advantages.
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