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

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Oct 16, 2024 at 8:50:21 PM, Ștefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> 4. a proper VSCode extension (we can include Vim and Emacs there too,
> but the main focus is VSCode) with all the bells and whistles more
> established extensions have. I know we would all want to stick to
> Lazarus and we all know that VSCode is bloated, but we have to accept
> the reality that people do use it and it is really popular. Survive,
> adapt, overcome. :-) OmniPascal was a nice attempt, but it's dead and
> also closed source;
>
> 6. an independent language server (no, cutting Lazarus' guts doesn't
> count, not until people can easily install precompiled versions) that
> can be used with the VSCode extension;
>

I have a language server I made and VSCode extension but it’s hard to use
and buggy (mainly because CodeTools) but for other reasons that are my own
fault. I never got the package working well enough to download binaries and
run smoothly. Personally I use Sublime Text but I use VSCode for the
debugger.

There is one other person helping me but I haven’t touched it in a long
time after many changes were made (for Lazarus users I think) so I’m not
sure how well it’s working now. There’s just not enough community interest
and people with free time to tie up all the loose ends.
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