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

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 10/16/24 8:03 PM, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Prease DON'T add garbage collector.  IMO it isn't a good idea.  I had
> very bad experiences with it. Unless somebody found a new magic
> algorithm in the last decade...

I agree. Although, I'm not against someone adding a .NET target (which 
has to be garbage collected), or doing some cool things (like, apps, 
libraries, frameworks, etc.) with the JVM compiler (which uses a garbage 
collector). But people don't seem to be interested in that.

For the native targets, I think garbage collection is a bad idea.

That being said, I think some garbage collectors that can be used with C 
and C++ can also be used with Free Pascal, or at least, support for them 
should be easy to implement for the few people who want to use them.

Nikolay