[fpc-pascal] Interface syntax: Is possible don't use specialize in mode objfpc?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Jul 17 09:24:41 CEST 2015



On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2015-07-17 07:57, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> Simple: there is a bigger community, and more ready-to-use code
>> floating on internet. The language itself has absolutely nothing to
>> do with it.
>
> +1   Well said.
>
> I know this is a huge generalisation (normally not a good thing), but
> most web (JS) developers I have met, most of their day-to-day JavaScript
> coding consists of using ready-made frameworks or copying somebody
> else's code and use it for their own needs. There actual own-written
> JavaScript coding is very small in the grand scheme of things.

And this is why I firmly believe we need more libraries to actually do things, 
instead of more changes to the language.

Another language feature is not going to automagically supply us with e.g. a websockets library.

Michael.



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