Santiago A. schrieb:
In this comment he supported Lazarus, but the last paragraphs made some
objections. Here is a translation of the last paragraphs, sorry if my
English is not good enough
"Some problems I find in Lazarus a those that unfortunatelly can
be found in most OSS. On one hand they have amazing features that
can't be found in their commercial counterparts, on the other hand
they lack elemental features that are waiting to be implemented and
waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting....
+1
"Some of the elemental things I miss are: The debugger can't see
properties values of objects (A framework for a OOP without being
able to watch objects in the debuger!, that's an oxymoron) and
nested procedures can't see parent variables. And some bugs never
disappear, or disappear and appear again".
Writing an multi-platform compiler is easy, compared to an
multi-platform debugger. Local procedures introduce many problems, they
are not handled by standard debuggers because there exists no common
implementation across compilers and languages. Properties are more
common, and it should be possible to add them to the Lazarus specific
debugging code.
Well, I don't know what bugs he was talking about, but about the
debugger I think he is right. I would also add a help. Those should be 0
priority: you need to debug and with thousands of objects/functions you
need to access to help very often. Code completion, folding code etc are
wonderful features, but with a good debugger and a good help is like a
car with GPS, four airbags, but with gas tank for two liters.
+1
DoDi
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