Re: Fwd: What to do to get new users
Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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Op 18-10-2024 om 10:41 schreef Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal: >> By contrast, Pascal is not designed with GC in mind. >> You'd need to redesign the language. >> >> If you do that, you can throw away all existing code if you introduce GC, >> because the two concepts do not merge easily. >> >> Embarcadero tried it in Delphi, and they failed. Not surprisingly, >> they removed again all automatic memory management. > Maybe it was mentioned in the thread, I just glanced through it, but how > about ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), Objective C style? Delphi tried and failed. IMHO it was also messy with all the "weak" attributes. I think it is better that people wanting GC go for the backends that implement GC. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal