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

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 10/19/24 5:27 PM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2024 at 9:15:10 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal 
> <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>> I really can not see where beginners have to struggle with memory 
>> management.
>> If a project gets bigger you have to think about it, yes. It depends 
>> on the
>> coding style. In my project I wrote my own memory management for the
>> webserver. It took me 3 weeks of work.
>
> I didn’t mean to get into a big flame war over this and debate the 
> merits of both I’m just telling you what I see in the industry and 
> trends in programming. This isn’t the only thing either just one of 
> the larger ones.

Counterexample 1: The growth of Rust.

Counterexample 2: Pascal is also growing.

Counterexample 3: The amount of C and C++ code your computer is running.

GC is only used as the top "scripting" layer, everything else is C++. 
Every pixel that you see on your screen, every animation, all of this is 
done by C or C++ code. Rewriting all of this in a GC'd "memory safe" 
language will result in your computer becoming slow as a snail. Moore's 
law has been dead for some time, so this situation is here to stay.

> If you really want to know then FPC should conduct a survey and see 
> what users say. Ask existing users and try to reach out to other 
> programmers too.

I could easily predict that the majority of FPC users don't have a 
problem with manual memory management.

Nikolay
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