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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Oct 19, 2024 at 9:37:49 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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Counterexample 1: The growth of Rust.<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">which is the opposite of Pascal, total memory safety. Rust is one of the reasons that show people don’t want bug prone manual memory management anymore.</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" type="cite"><br>Counterexample 2: Pascal is also growing.<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">Then why are we talking about new users? I thought Pascal was getting smaller every year.</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" type="cite"><br>Counterexample 3: The amount of C and C++ code your computer is running.<br><br>GC is only used as the top "scripting" layer, everything else is C++. Every pixel that you see on your screen, every animation, all of this is done by C or C++ code. Rewriting all of this in a GC'd "memory safe" language will result in your computer becoming slow as a snail. Moore's law has been dead for some time, so this situation is here to stay.<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think FPC is closest to C++ in spirit but less powerful and easier to use. That’s maybe where new users could from.</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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