[Pas2js] Next language feature for pas2js...

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:

> On 27.04.2018 14:49, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, warleyalex via Pas2js wrote:
>>> I'm quite confident our mORMot suits better with the free open source 
>>> Pas2JS
>>> FPC based project.
>>
>> I never was a big fan of mORMot. Way too complicated for beginners. 
>> Not RAD at all.
>>
>> I'm currently converting a big project for a client that uses mORMot 
>> to something else which is less obtuse and fragile. Now I'm even less 
>> of a fan than before.
>
> I have exactly the same experience. In legacy Delphi projects I use 
> SynPDF (which is great) but I abandoned mORMot. Too complicated, too 
> many dirty tricks (e.g. why does it have its own TypInfo?).

Indeed. 
The dirty tricks department is what I referred to with my 'fragile'.

And actually, SynPDF is the reason I started fpPDF. 
SynPDF is great in terms of functionality, but the dependency on GDI+ 
is simply wrong. Not portable at all.
Whereas fpPDF is destined to - eventually - run in the browser...

Michael.