On 2016-01-27 01:51, Fabrício Srdic wrote: > To summarize my opinion: if I am java programmer, would be better if I can > solve my problem via Java classes than using C library binds.
I think it is safe to say we would all love such a solution for Object Pascal too. But unfortunately C is an overwhelmingly popular language, and most core functionality of an OS or library is implemented in it. Java is more popular than C (depends which stats you look at obviously), and thus it too has a lot of pure Java implementations of many things. eg: parsers, database libraries, database engines, graphics engines, etc Bottom line is, these two language show that you need to have a massive market share for something like that to happen [at such a scale]. > Lazarus GUI framework was developed using pure pascal ( like fpGUI) instead > of using external libraries and frameworks, Personally I agree that LCL was implemented the wrong way (not custom drawn), but I also need to correct you, or at least point out that even though fpGUI Toolkit implements ALL widgets in pure Object Pascal, and even has its own Object Pascal 2D graphics library for sub-pixel anti-aliased drawing, it too relies on external libraries. How else is fpGUI going to talk to X11, Win32, OS/2 etc. At some point it needs to talk to the windowing system of the OS (which is most likely implement in C, as some library). fpGUI's dependencies are magnitudes smaller than LCL, but there are still dependencies - you simply can't avoid that, other than implement a whole OS, windowing system, window manager etc in Object Pascal too. > we could develop mobile apps using Lazarus today. As far as I know there is work being done to allow Lazarus to develop Android applications. I guess this work simply hasn't been made public yet, as it likely is still incomplete and under development. ps: I welcome you to implement a Android backend for fpGUI. ;-) Somebody is apparently working on this already, though I don't know the status or progress. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
