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

[Luca Olivetti]

El 16/10/24 a les 5:00, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal ha escrit:
> Even if there is a market for Lazarus type apps people in 2024 don’t 
> want to use a massive legacy IDE and prefer better tools like VSCode.


I'm biased because I've been programming in pascal for almost 40 years, 
starting with line editors/command line compilers and linkers (*), using 
clipper for the user interface (anybody remembers it? the syntax for 
defining input fields was way better that doing it in basic, yes, plain 
old ms dos basic), marvelling at what was possible with delphi (even if 
at the time it had no autocompletion or other smarts) then switching to 
lazarus 20 years ago.
So I mostly do "old style" gui applications (which, btw, have to work 
24/7 unattended), but not only.
I recently had to use other ides for other languages (personal projects 
in C/C++), one of them VSCode and I find it a steaming pile of s*it, 
bloated and its "smart" features barely work (it's probably me though). 
Good luck trying to design a GUI with it (I think that even clipper was 
way better for that).
Same experience with eclipse and netbeans (I had to do some java work, 
ouch), again, it's probably me, but good luck designing a GUI with those 
(but at least the "smart" features work somewhat better).
So give me a "massive legacy IDE" that actually works any day, please.
I'm sure that this "massive legacy IDE" will allow me one day to design 
web interfaces with the same ease that it now allows me to design an 
"old style" gui application.


(*) programming embedded systems, so no debugger, not even writeln.

Bye
-- 
Luca