On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Marius <[email protected]> wrote: > Flávio Etrusco wrote: > >>> Yes, but we all know you are a special case :-) >>> >>> Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY! >> >>I tend to agree with Graeme on this one. >> >>-Flávio > > My opinion as well, and its already hard at this moment as generics and > string/utf8 are the first problems people will encounter while moving > XE* code to FPC.
Oops, I misquoted. Graeme actually replied to that opinion with this: "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." IOW I think that for some years already, innovation would be a much better selling point for Free Pascal rather than Delphi compatibility. -Flávio -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
