[fpc-devel] "Blank slate" next version of FPC

Jonas Maebe jonas at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 16 09:27:43 CET 2019


On 16/02/19 01:37, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
> One thing that does spring to mind though.,, what features of Delphi and 
> FPC made the language unsuitable for Martin Schreiber, and is it 
> anything we developers can possibly address in some way?

He did not like new language features and RTL changes added by Delphi in 
newer versions (generics, codepage-aware strings, RTL switched to 
unicode string), and FPC's goal to remain Delphi-compatible.


Jonas



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