[fpc-devel] "Blank slate" next version of FPC
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 16 09:58:05 CET 2019
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
> Hm, fair enough. Seems a bit strange to not like a new feature, although
> Delphi did start getting a bit bloated in places. Ah well!
> Compatibility is never a bad thing though!
Hm. 'a bit bloated' is the understatement of the year.
I still program mostly using language features of essentially D7.
Works fine, and I don't think my productivity is in any way enhanced by all the new features.
Maybe enumerators save some typing. And it's not that I haven't tried the new features.
What I miss - usually - are libraries to perform common tasks.
I wonder where the success of Javascript comes from ?
As a language it is simplicity itself, and yet Javascript thrives.
The only extension to have a real success is TypeScript, which simply
introduces some type checking and more or less real 'constants'...
Michael.
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