On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote: > > 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.
Or you port stuff to Lazarus not in one big bang, but project by project. Or you use a lot of external packages. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
