[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Tim Coates]

I am a little on the fence regarding the comment re neither fish or fowl...

each developer does their own thing in the language - whether that is
writing something for platform X or working on database Y etc. Resources
for learning are few and far between if you can find them. If you wanted to
learn Pascal for web development, should there be something before re
learning Pascal fundamentals?

If you ask people in the developer community what they know about "Pascal"
what answers would you get?

Do they (people) understand how the language has evolved? What is possible
in the language now!

While I don't do much C programming these days, I still read a bit about
what has been added.

There maybe announcements in the fpc community, these appear on the forums
vs fpc main site? In the news section, the latest entry is regarding the
death of Wirth and then one before that was the 2021.  This announcement
was in 2022...

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,59468.0.html



On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 1:36 AM Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2024 at 9:23:41 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> First of all, Joanna on #fpc (and other fpc related IRC channels) has
>> blown off over 100 potential fpc users, including myself. I'm learning
>> Ada now, and liking it a lot.
>>
>
> what authority does she have to such things?
>
>
>> Second, fpc is neither fish nor fowl: It has way too much "stuff" to be
>> an easy to learn or use language, but that "stuff" isn't useful to most
>> non-Lazarus users.
>
>
> I tend to agree. Feels like it’s somewhere in between C, Java and C++
> without committing to either direction. Not a bad thing I  guess but no
> inspiring to new users either.
>
> Regards,
>     Ryan Joseph
>
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