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

[Stefan-Iulian Alecu]

> 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 am definitely not saying it isn't a good low level language. That is 
one of the things I use to promote the language. However, you are right 
in that we should invest in being more than "the free Delphi 
alternative". Great, you're attracting 10 people from the Delphi side, 
but for the average shmuck they don't know what Delphi is or what it's 
about. Lazarus can still market itself as a RAD editor, that's what it 
is, but I don't know how you can market Pascal in general. Are we 
forever destined to be the old GUI language, akin to VB6? We have to 
think about how we can sell ourselves, otherwise nobody's going to 
consider us. Or maybe they're a student, in which case... /shrug

-- 
Stefan-Iulian Alecu
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