[fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Thu Mar 16 17:52:02 CET 2006


memsom wrote:
>>> I'm sure Lazerus is a fine IDE, but it is not on a par with BDS.
>> That depends on the POV. Lazarus has a lot of things Delphi/BDS doesn't
>> have
>> like multiplatform support and a good optimizing compiler etc, so you can
>> also
>> easily say BDS isn't on a par with FPC/Lazarus :)
> 
> 
> You're suffering from Steve Jobs-itus. "The reality disortion field is
> strong in this one."

No, it's simply a matter of POV and what you need. A family car can never
replace a truck neither a truck replaces a family care. Less people need a
truck, but those who need a truck don't suffer from a distorted reality.

> 
> Pascal on Linux etc is niche. 

So e.g. the ability to generate SSE code and reach the double floating point
performance is linux bound?

> So, does Lazerus offer full Delphi support
> (including a full and compatible VCL and proper forms support) using
> native Win32 API? Maybe... I'm doubtful.

A fully compatible VCL was never the main goal of the current FPC/Lazarus
developers because it would be win32 bound.

But feel free to hope for OpenDelphi, I'am curious on the developers doing
compiler development in C++ to improve an Object Pascal compiler :)))



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