<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:33 PM Jonas Maebe <<a href="mailto:jonas@freepascal.org">jonas@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
As mentioned by others, that's not really something any of the current <br>
FPC developers are interested in working on. Martin Schreiber, however, <br>
was working on a project like that before he passed away<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but I think you've <b>hugely</b> misinterpreted his goals. Martin Schreiber was like the <b>ultimate</b> "Delphi 7 was perfect and nobody needs anything beyond its features" sort of person. Basically the polar opposite of what you're saying. The sort of person who really honestly thinks (or thought) that typecasting void pointers back and forth is somehow preferable to just using generics because generics are "bad" for some vague reason they can't explain, and who openly stated that he never planned to add generics to his language (which personally made me decide right then to not bother keeping up to date with the development on it.)</div><div><br></div><div>His compiler code was / is just kind of an unreadable mess, to be perfectly honest.</div></div></div>