Re: [fpc-pascal] "Modern Pascal is Still in the Race"

2023-10-12 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 10/12/23 17:07, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: Pascal still fits a niche as being a lower level language like C or C++ but with nicer syntax. That is true. For making modern software it's going to be hard to use though since no major OS's support it directly. In what way does this

Re: [fpc-pascal] "Modern Pascal is Still in the Race"

2023-10-12 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
Pascal still fits a niche as being a lower level language like C or C++ but with nicer syntax. For making modern software it's going to be hard to use though since no major OS's support it directly. > On Oct 12, 2023, at 7:18 PM, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal > wrote: > > « > A recent poll on th

[fpc-pascal] "Modern Pascal is Still in the Race"

2023-10-12 Thread Liam Proven via fpc-pascal
« A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding in pascal. It is still fun after decades! But does it mean that you should not use pascal for any new project? Are th

Re: [fpc-pascal] What is webasssembly?

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 11 Oct 2023 08:27:35 +0200 (CEST) On Tue, 10 Oct 2023, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: What is webasssembly? A bytecode format (similar to what is used in Java and C# runtimes) which i

Re: [fpc-pascal] What is webasssembly?

2023-10-12 Thread Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal
> Does this mean I can code an application in Pascal and use webassembly to turn it into a web application? If so, could you please point me to some simple examples? Without having WebAssembly used yet: As far as I understand, that should be possible. The "entry point" is here: https://wiki.free