Re: Fwd: What to do to get new users

Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <[email protected]> schrieb am
Mi., 16. Okt. 2024, 11:44:

> As for the language I think for GUI apps programmers don’t need or want a
> manual memory managed language like Pascal and would prefer something like
> C#. In general the ease of programming is not there in Pascal compared to
> other languages and the community is extremely resistant to change.
>
> Do you have a garbage collection proposal for Pascal?
>
> Free Pascal has a JVM target that supports garbage collection and pretty
> much nobody is using it. Why do you think that is?
>
To be fair working with the JVM target is quite a bit different and then
not even all language constructs are supported yet (though there is a merge
request I want to take a look at to improve the situation).

Regards,
Sven

>

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