On Ned, 2015-06-14 at 16:48 +0000, Rabbi David Botton wrote: Hello David,
after some more moths of exploring some other possibilites, I'm (again) back to evaluate Gnoga... > I can't say that will materialize and I'm ok one way or the other but > it would be nice to fast tract the plans and Gnoga towards my long > term goals and involve many more people. I see that AdaCore (http://blog.adacore.com/modernizing-adacores-open-source) put some repos on Github, so wonder if Gnoga's initiative has something to do with it? > So there is much future in Ada and in Gnoga, Ada is a solid language > for app development much more so than any other main stream language > and the Gnoga approach is one I expect to see emulated over the coming > years and we are in the right place at the right time. After eliminating some more languages which seems to be simply not interested to 'Bring the benefits of XYZ to the "applications" space, in particular for non-safety critical, non-embedded general purpose software and business systems.' I've arrrive to Free Pascal and Lazarus with some GUI alternatives like fpGUI and/or MSEide+gui. What I can say is that FPC compiler is open-source, actively developed with active open-source community. Similar situation with Lazarus, although fpGUI/MSEide+gui are mostly driven by single devs. Cannot bet on it, but probably FPC/Lazarus come with larger 'standard' library or more "batteries included". For my own app, I need sqlite3 bindings and probably mostly custom written libs along with bindings for 3rd party C library. However, I'm interested about smooth usage of Unicode (UTF-8) in order to be able to have proper 118n and l11n of my app which is definite 'pro' with more modern langauges which have utf-8 support out-of-the-box. It's clear that Ada is more type-safe/and richer langauge, but I wonder how would you compare Gnoga with FPC/Lazarus for writing open-source multi-platform 'general purpose software'? Sincerely, Gour -- One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Gnoga-list mailing list Gnoga-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnoga-list
