On 2010-07-02 10:55, Sven Barth wrote:
It's not about escaping Pascal, but to grant the language new
possibilities.
On Android phones you can only use Java to access all subsystems of
the device (e.g. GUI). You can access the framebuffer from native code
though, but directly drawing to a memory field is not the same as
using the available GUI classes. It has yet to be found out whether
you can access the JVM from a native application (not a native library
which is loaded by JVM).
Also the new Windows Phone 7 series relies completly on .Net, so our
WinCE cross compiler is completly useless here (the usage of .Net is
enforced by the kernel itself). And Microsoft might also try to
prepare the way for full .Net desktop operating systems. Now that
they've discovered virtualization (Windows 7 XP Mode) the
compatibility problems might stop them no more. We might not see this
in Windows 8 and maybe not in Windows 9 either. But perhaps Windows 10
might be the big breaker of Win32?
Free Pascal should be able to compile for these plattforms. But I
don't mind to use a completly different RTL and object model that
suits the targeted plattform, I only want to use the language which I
believe is superior to C# and Java.
All good and valid points. I respectfully retract my earlier comments in
these very cases.
But, the unfortunate thing is, unless someone has already done it, no
amount of valid reasons alone can assure that you'll get those
capabilities added.
Why don't you consider organizing/initating something yourself?
Cheers,
Adem
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