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

[Santi]

El 16/10/2024 a las 05:12, Joao Paulo Schwarz Schuler via fpc-pascal 
escribió:
> Some half baked ideas:
> * month after month, the percentage of code coded by AI grows and 
> human made shrinks.
> * could Pascal be the ideal language coded (or preferred) by AI?
>
> Given that Pascal is strongly typed, easy to read and debug, avoids 
> many types of bugs, could we make AI to prefer pascal?

Pascal opened the path with structured programming and hard typed 
languages.

But most languages nowadays are hard typed: Java, rust, go, c#, swift... 
c is here to stay, but modern language got rid of c-like types 
byte=char=bool=everything. In fact modern development uses tools to 
control types in c and c++.

I'm sorry to say than other language are better, handier without 
sacrificing security and readability.
A few points:

  * Concurrency as part of the syntax of the language
  * Declaring a var when you need it
  * Tuples, so easy to return two values
  * Some functional programing

And all those languages are backed by big corporations.

Lazarus is for Delphi nostalgic guys, like me. I'm sure 90% of Lazarus 
users have worked professionally with Delphi before.


>
> I wonder to which extent our current programming languages will end as 
> a middle coding layer.
>
> AI based transpilers from Python to Pascal are each day closer to reality.
>
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Santi
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