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

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Oct 16, 2024 at 9:18:01 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I also have some experience from my day job on making a VS Code extension
> for the Nim language (you can see my commits in the Nim language server
> here https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/graphs/contributors and for
> the Nim VS code extension here https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim)
> and I can definitely say VS Code is horrible crap. It's buggy as hell, new
> versions break API compatibility all the time and it makes it look like
> it's your language extension's fault.
>
>
Not my experience. I prefer the editor in Sublime Text but VSCode is a good
debugger which works with LLDB and Pascal. VSCode is wildly popular as well
so FPC is missing out on new users by not having this as option. Maybe some
packages you used were the culprit? They have a monthly update cycle too so
I would think they catch these things.

When I learn a new compiler these days I download the installer, run it,
then check VSCode or Sublime Text for extensions to install in one click.
If that doesn't work I probably just give up because I idon’t have time to
be playing around and there’s myriad of new languages to play around with
these days.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/attachments/20241016/0ba8a1d7/attachment.htm>