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

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 10/19/24 4:17 PM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2024 at 8:06:44 PM, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal 
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>> NOTE: the below is NOT about ARC. It is about the implication that 
>> ARC == Safety (in the environment that we have)
>
> Not following "in the environment that we have”. I’m just saying 
> manual memory management is hard and bug prone which leads to 
> crashing. New programmers are not usually keen on taking on this 
> burden when they have easier solutions which let the compiler automate 
> the hard parts.

You're exaggerating severely. Manual memory management is not that hard 
and not that bug prone. It has a reputation of being hard, because of 
the flaws in the popular C language (like char* strings and arrays 
without range checking), which Pascal doesn't have. And programs, 
written in the so called "memory safe" languages in practice crash just 
as often, if not more often. On top of that, they're slow.

Nikolay
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