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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Oct 16, 2024 at 8:50:21 PM, Ștefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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I don't blame someone coming at me and thinking Pascal's<br>old, when we're clinging on to Lazarus with *everything*. It is a bit<br>sad if you think about it: we're putting Lazarus on a pedestal, which<br>made the wider community (IMO) not consider what happens if you have to<br>use its features outside of the IDE.
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<div><br></div>The question I have is, if you’re a new programmer not wanting to make a cross platform app what are building with Pascal? It’s still a good low level compiled language and you can do things like SDL and games with it but people are using C++ for that mainly and think FPC lags behind in some areas like smart pointers and RAII.<div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’d look at what languages like Zig and Rust have done to attract so many new users and what kind of programs they’re making. I like the Jai (closed beta) and Odin projects too in that they promote games and have all the stuff you’d need to get started right out of the box.</div><div dir="ltr">
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<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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