On 2013-12-27 22:49, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Just look on e.g. the forums. All people are asking about Delphi packages.
And once those Delphi packages are ported to Free Pascal, nobody needs Delphi any more. ;-) > Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY! Converting to Free Pascal and Lazarus will *always* be easier that rewriting everything in C# or Java - no matter how many incompatibilities Free Pascal might have with Delphi. The language still stays a lot more similar than the alternative. Yet, looking at the current employment market, it seems most companies opted to rewrite there Delphi projects in C# and Java - so they took the even harder route! Why? Probably due to more innovation happing in those other languages. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus