[fpc-devel] FreeSparta project is dead - Generics.Collections is live

[Paul Breneman]

On 12/26/2014 12:24 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Maciej Izak wrote:
>
>> I've Decided to close the "FreeSparta". Thanks you all for your interest. There are several
>> reasons.
>> [...]
>> When I look for new jobs, it seems that there are no more jobs for Pascal/Delphi Programmers. Now
>> in my new job I'm using Java EE and C# most of the time.
>
> I can feel your pain. :( I had to spend almost a decade in other languages
> before I found a Pascal job which suited me.
>
> Actually, I visited a few meetings lately, where I talked with
> representatives of several companies with large existing Pascal code base,
> and were looking to hire Pascal/Delphi developers, but they were strugling
> to find good candidates. Or sometimes any at all.
>
> Maybe there's supply and maybe there's demand but these - for some reason
> - cannot meet? How about some FPC/Delphi job forum?
>
> Maybe FPC-Devel is not the best place to discuss this, but it's definitely
> a topic I'd be glad to hear other's opinion on this.

Hi Charlie,

Here is a Lazarus, Free Pascal job forum:
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/board,41.0.html

regards,
Paul
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