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

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Oct 16, 2024 at 9:08:13 PM, Stefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I'll revisit your extensions and give pascal-language-server yet another
> shot, but I am not too confident. If I can make it work within a CI/CD
> context, I'll send a PR. This would imply cloning all of Lazarus, and
> following trunk (I wonder if that's still needed, since Laz 3.6 is out),
> and that's why not having Lazarus in the mix would be a net benefit.
>

Exactly it’s hard to use and the building fails for people. I only use it
on macOS but things always change and are breaking. It DOES work though and
offers a good deal of functionality, at least all the important stuff.

This is more of a build problem for you though right? I know it’s not a
standalone thing and relies on Lazarus but what realistically are you going
to do? Already CodeTools is a massive project and I wouldn’t want to
recreate that just to for easier building. Then you need to keep it updated
for every new change the compiler makes, which no one has time for.

I wonder how other new compilers handle this. I think unless the compiler
itself has a “quick” mode for LSP’s you’ll need a whole other program which
knows the syntax and isn’t in sync with the compilers parser/type checking
etc…
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