Andrew Brunner wrote:
I honestly think this conversation would be better served asking questions like
How can Lazarus get noticed more?
How can Lazarus get more exposure/adoption?
How can Lazarus get industry sponsorship?
How can Lazarus get educational institutions to explore development
using Lazarus/FPC?
IMO, a larger percentage of the development space is something that
can be attained. Support for alternative operating systems like linux
and offer a break from Microsoft (namely via Ubuntu) should be a
marketing sweet spot.
Which I think is one reason why a potential port of FPC onto the IBM
mainframe architecture is interesting. As I understand it, C is far less
popular in that environment and there is a fair amount of legacy Pascal
code: providing a mature development environment which would allow
projects to move in both directions could be popular.
Library support for hot topic Information Technologies. FPC/Lazarus
must follow trends and include components. A broad range of component
support is essential.
Example: Social is trendy so FPC/Lazarus should come with components
to interface with Craigslist / Facebook / Twitter / Google . Access
requires http or https requests so openssl would need to be more fully
developed.
But one problem there is that by the time the component has been
written/documented/marketed today's hot topic is very much yesterday's.
What's more, if the owner of the service expects people to use it via
HTML or Flash, and anybody doing a mashup is used to doing that type of
job PHP/Perl/Python, then an attempt to muscle in could be met with
hostility.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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