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

[Sven Barth]

Am 15.11.2024 um 15:26 schrieb Steve Litt via fpc-pascal:
> Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal said on Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:44:35 +0300
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>> Do you have a garbage collection proposal for Pascal?
>>
>> Free Pascal has a JVM target that supports garbage collection and
>> pretty much nobody is using it. Why do you think that is?
> This is what I meant in my previous post. JWM? Garbage collection? What
> was wrong with Turbo Pascal 5.5? If you want garbage collection, what's
> wrong with Python, Ruby or Lua?

The point of the JVM target is that it allows to use Pascal code on the 
Java Virtual Machine. What's wrong with supporting more platforms? Same 
as FPC supporting either JavaScript directly (through pas2js) or 
WebAssembly.

Regards,
Sven
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