Hi Razvan,
> I just noticed the CodeGear roadmap and thought it would be nice to
> see what they are planning to do so we keep somewhat close to Delphi's
Funny you mention it. I was thinking in similar lines. FPC and
Lazarus main goals was and still is (as far as I know) to be Delphi
compatible. In the beginning it was fine, because FPC and Lazarus was
far behind. Now both products have caught up a lot of ground. At some
places even surpassed the features of Delphi. Now CodeGear is feeling
the pressure from the market as they have been pretty dormant with new
feature for the last few years.
So yes, you asked a good question? Where does FPC and Lazarus stand,
if CodeGear starts implementing things FPC and Lazarus already has,
but their design is very different. WideString compared to UTF-8 is
one such case, but I'm sure there are many other such issues.
Does FPC and Lazarus scrap their ideas and start following Delphi
again to stay compatible, or do they decide compatibility is not such
a high priority anymore and go their own route.
If compatibility is still a high priority, then FPC and Lazarus has to
keep holding back on implementing new features and wait ('till God
knows when) to see how CodeGear handles the problem, so that FPC and
Lazarus can do something similar to stay compatible. This, I think is
not a good idea!!
Regards,
- Graeme -
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