[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:

> I don't blame someone coming at me and thinking Pascal's
> old, when we're clinging on to Lazarus with *everything*. It is a bit
> sad if you think about it: we're putting Lazarus on a pedestal, which
> made the wider community (IMO) not consider what happens if you have to
> use its features outside of the IDE.


The question I have is, if you’re a new programmer not wanting to make a
cross platform app what are building with Pascal? It’s still a good low
level compiled language and you can do things like SDL and games with it
but people are using C++ for that mainly and think FPC lags behind in some
areas like smart pointers and RAII.

I’d look at what languages like Zig and Rust have done to attract so many
new users and what kind of programs they’re making. I like the Jai (closed
beta) and Odin projects too in that they promote games and have all the
stuff you’d need to get started right out of the box.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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