FPC already tries its damnedest to be Delphi compatible - maybe it's
time Delphi tries to be FPC compatible. Let them do the work for a
change.
A couple of things may have escaped the conversation...
As of the current shipping version of Delphi, its Windows only. Sure,
there is something in the works out there for cross-compiler, etc. but
its not here yet. Its one thing to have a web enabled application, but
its another thing to host it. And with the vast majority of the cheap
web hosting companies out there running on Linux, FPC is really the only
option for this. Delphi developers know this - if they want to deploy
their web based solution cheaply, FPC is the best way to go for them.
The problem, however, isn't about trying to bring Delphi peeps over to
FPC because of fpWeb. They'll get that. The problem is finding Web
Hosting companies that will let you deploy CGIs on their servers,
without forcing you into the VPS product line. VPS are coming down in
price, but the success of languages like PHP really comes down to
willing and available low priced web hosting companies and I don't think
you are going to be able to offer a solution competitive with PHP that
can run on a $5 a month host. If there is an option for this, we need
to promote that to the Delphi folk (and the existing FPC community), but
I haven't found one yet that doesn't require a Linux sysadmin level of
user to work with, or is seriously restricted in bandwidth/disk, etc.
So big thumbs up to FPC for having a Linux based option to deploy solid
web solutions. But find a web hosting solution you can deploy it on
might be a more important challenge to overcome than bringing more
Delphi people over who will find the exact same business issue when they
get here.
Myles
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Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions USA, Inc.
www.techsolusa.com
Phone +1-480-451-7440
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