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

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Oct 19, 2024 at 9:37:49 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> Counterexample 1: The growth of Rust.
>

which is the opposite of Pascal, total memory safety. Rust is one of the
reasons that show people don’t want bug prone manual memory management
anymore.


> Counterexample 2: Pascal is also growing.
>

Then why are we talking about new users? I thought Pascal was getting
smaller every year.


> 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.
>
>
I think FPC is closest to C++ in spirit but less powerful and easier to
use. That’s maybe where new users could from.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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