On 28.12.2013 14:25, Marcos Douglas wrote:
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Florian Klämpfl
<flor...@freepascal.org> wrote:
Am 28.12.2013 13:37, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
Am 2013-12-28 13:19, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java
instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If
they care, why they would be leaving Delphi?
If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a
marginal oss compiler.
The question is:
Why did they use Delphi before at all?
If the reason was that Delphi was a very common and widespread
programming environment
then it is a understandable behaviour to move to the next main stream
environment
as soon as budget and time allows.
Such people would never care about FPC/Lazarus (even when it was fully
Delphi "compatible").
They would never think about using it.
So making FPC/Lazarus "compatible" would not hold any user of this group.
The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting
usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches
delphi leaves open. Everything else is "by-catch".
If the reason was that they like Pascal as an easy to learn and
mantain language then they will invest into migration even
if not all parts are the identical to Delphi.
Just the opposite:
They may like that not all misconcepts are repeated in
FPC/Lazarus and they may like that it is open source.
GPC proved your argumentation wrong. GPC took the "clean way" of
extended pascal (you always complain about fpc's dyn. arrays. Just use
GPC, it has the clean solution) Unfortuntaly GPC development stopped for
years due to missing contributors. The people keeping FPC alive are
those interested in Delphi compatibility.
Right.
I didn't understand one thing: If I'm a Delphi XE2 programmer
(suppose), why I will need to keep FPC compatible with Delphi? If I'm
a Delphi programmer I will use... Delphi.
Because you (the XE2 programmer) might look at Delphi XE5's NewGen
compiler (the LLVM based one) and think: "What the f*** are they doing
with the language?! O.o"
Or you might want to be compatible to more platforms than provided by
Delphi XE2 or you might want to keep using a VCL compatible GUI library
on other platforms whereby in Delphi you need to use FireMonkey here.
Regards,
Sven
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