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

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 10/19/24 4:34 PM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2024 at 8:06:56 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal 
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Sorry, but if you start then you start with a simple program and then 
>> you have
>> to gain experience over time. That is the same case everywhere.
>>
>> There is a german sayword "Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen".
>>
>> No master has yet fallen from the sky
>>
>
> All true but if the compiler can make your life easier then new people 
> will be going that route.
Exaggeration. Calling .free is not hard. Nobody complains about e.g. 
having to close files or sockets, after use. It's the same with memory.
> Manual memory management is a thing of the past I think it’s safe to say.

No, it's not. The GC languages are just a tiny layer on the top, 
scripting things. All the performance critical work underneath is done 
by languages, that compile to native code and use manual memory 
management. Take a look at the source of your kernel, your GPU drivers, 
your graphics environment, or your browser. These aren't getting 
rewritten in a GC'd language anytime soon.

Nikolay
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