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

[DougC]

---- On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:34:01 -0400 Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal <mailto:fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote ---



Please notice that Telegram does not spend any money in marketing! 

Telegram is one of the most popular messenger: 

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-popular-messaging-apps 










I don't think the situations are vary similar, so I don't think the comparison is useful. Messaging apps are relatively new and the market is in a state of flux. No one has much of an investment in their messaging app - they could change in an instant. But the programming language market requires substantial investment in learning. The technical debt of active systems is also huge. It is not nearly as easy to change programming languages as messaging apps!



User privacy is a huge draw for messaging apps. There is nothing comparable in programming languages except maybe simplicity. But Object Pascal has already succumbed to the lure of complexity that accompanies features like generics, attributes, redefined operators, and other decorative comments.



Doug C.
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