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

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 10/17/24 8:58 AM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2024 at 12:03:47 AM, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez via 
> fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> 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 used C# for Unity quite a bit and never had any problems. That’s 
> even with the worst case scenario for game developing that needs real 
> time graphics. Does that power all of .NET too and all those desktop 
> applications? It’s been battle tested many years as far as I can tell.
Yet, Delphi .NET was a failure. And nobody uses FPC for the JVM 
platform. That's why I'm reluctant to implement a .NET target, even 
though it's possible to do. I mean, given infinite developer time, it's 
cool, but I don't have that much time, therefore, .NET is very low priority.
> In 2024 you don’t need the performance of manual memory management in 
> UI apps. Garbage collector or anything else will work perfectly well.

Well, surely, you can probably use something like this with Free Pascal 
as well:

https://www.hboehm.info/gc/

We're eagerly waiting for your patches to make this work.

For me, it's not worth it. Calling .Free on objects doesn't bother me, 
nor does it make development for me any more difficult. With the 
built-in leak detection (-gh option), it's even easier.

Nikolay
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