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

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Oct 19, 2024 at 7:37:15 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> Because if the latter, well I know some people who would shot the person
> introducing that in a high performance software...
>

yes it’s bad except for UI apps which is what FPC and new users seem to be
focusing on. FPC has it already on some types which are widely used.


> Actually, if we are talking safety (rather than comfort for the
> developer) then we may not need ARC at all. Because freeing memory is
> not the only (nor biggest?) worry. Running out of mem (and handling it
> gracefully, and without vulnerability)  is important too. But ARC
> doesn't solve that.
> One way to solve that is pre-allocate any mem that may be needed, and
> then never free or alloc any mem thereafter. And then you need no ARC at
> all.
>

FPC sadly has no concept of custom allocators for classes, just something
you can add to the type itself but that’s very limited. I really like how
Jai and Odin have added allocators in as a core part of the language and
library. Zig does something like this too but it’s much more clumsy and
tedious.


Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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