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

[Sven Barth]

Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Mi., 16. Okt. 2024, 13:49:

> As for the language I think for GUI apps programmers don’t need or want a
>> manual memory managed language like Pascal and would prefer something like
>> C#. In general the ease of programming is not there in Pascal compared to
>> other languages and the community is extremely resistant to change.
>>
>> Do you have a garbage collection proposal for Pascal?
>>
>> Free Pascal has a JVM target that supports garbage collection and pretty
>> much nobody is using it. Why do you think that is?
>>
> I don’t even know how to use that! I assume it’s not something you just
> enable on any program. I’ve never seen programs adopt it.
>

It's not something you enable. It's a completely different platform, namely
the Java Virtual Machine, so essentially a different processor.

Regards,
Sven

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