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

[Tim Coates]

Users will judge a website within seconds. And unfortunately that is the
nature of the game today.

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, 9:28 pm Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal, <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you
>> quickly what's the point of the language, and gives you example code, so
>> you can immediately see how it looks like. There are relatively large
>> and easy to find buttons/links for:
>
>
> Some here are not appreciating just how fickle people are these days. It’s
> not 1995 anymore and there are literally dozens of languages you can choose
> from so if it’s not clear what language looks like within 30 seconds
> browsing a web page people will click away and go to the next one.
>
> I saw this video recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFFcCLzOOyw)
> where this person goes over a list of languages he considered before
> choosing Odin for his projects (Free Pascal not included sadly). Notice the
> web pages and resources he reviewed in his process. The FPC web page
> doesn’t even have anything to view in terms of code snippets. People are
> going to click away for sure.
>
> Regards,
>     Ryan Joseph
>
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