Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Thomas Young via fpc-pascal
Rainer, did you create this application with FPC? Please provide more information about its development. Thomas Young > On Oct 18, 2024, at 10:48 AM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal > wrote: > > Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2024, 14:02:15 CEST schrieb Thomas Young via fpc- > pascal: >> One way to

[fpc-pascal] linker warning

2024-10-18 Thread ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal
An FYI for the compiler team I suppose. I got the following warning: Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2023/09/18] for aarch64 Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Darwin for AArch64 Compiling test.pp Assembling test Linking test ld: warning: -multiply_defined is obs

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Oct 19, 2024 at 2:31:36 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > This would mean that a new class type or some kind of additional attribute > would have to be introduced which would have to be incompatible to > non-reference-counted classes as otherwise there w

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
I'd like to point out that the main reason for using Lazarus is for ease of use when programming, keeping track of source files and the like.  Unfortunately, Lazarus is not very user friendly to screen reader users, and (as far as I know), it never has been. That eliminates a small but signifi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal schrieb am Fr., 18. Okt. 2024, 17:21: > On Oct 18, 2024 at 3:41:49 PM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal < > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> Maybe it was mentioned in the thread, I just glanced through it, but how >> about ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), Ob

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Oct 18, 2024 at 3:41:49 PM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > Maybe it was mentioned in the thread, I just glanced through it, but how > about ARC (Automatic Reference Counting), Objective C style? To be honest, > I really liked that, and we already have

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2024, 14:02:15 CEST schrieb Thomas Young via fpc- pascal: > One way to attract new users is create great software applications with FPC > for the world to see. https://klimaregelung.de/pages/deutsch/software.php ___ fpc-pascal m

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Pique7 via fpc-pascal
I'm doing my part by creating a Cookbook (along with an intro to FPC and snippets).    https://ikelaiah.github.io/free-pascal-cookbook/ https://ikelaiah.github.io/free-pascal-cookbook/docs/basics/intro-objpas-fpc/   Regards, Ikel   Thumbs up! __

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Thomas Young via fpc-pascal
One way to attract new users is create great software applications with FPC for the world to see. Thomas Young > On Oct 18, 2024, at 6:52 AM, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal > wrote: > >  > Op 16-10-2024 om 23:49 schreef James Richters via fpc-pascal: >> >> I think anyone coming across t

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Iwan Kelaiah via fpc-pascal
Hi there, I'm doing my part by creating a Cookbook (along with an intro to FPC and snippets). https://ikelaiah.github.io/free-pascal-cookbook/ https://ikelaiah.github.io/free-pascal-cookbook/docs/basics/intro-objpas-fpc/ Regards, Ikel ___ fpc-pascal ma

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal
Op 16-10-2024 om 23:49 schreef James Richters via fpc-pascal: I think anyone coming across the IDE and not realizing the help needs to be downloaded and installed separately would just assume there is no help.I know it states it quite clearly on the download page, but when downloading it you

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2024, 06:37:59 CEST schrieb Nikolay Nikolov via fpc- pascal: > > Lazarus is for Delphi nostalgic guys, like me. I'm sure 90% of Lazarus > > users have worked professionally with Delphi before. > > Not me. I really think Free Pascal is an improvement over many "modern" > lan

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal
Op 18-10-2024 om 11:23 schreef Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal: 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote: On 18/10/2024 10:41, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote: For once, I'd be really glad if a bunch of the containers would be Thread-Safe by default, like TList and things, and they aren't, because they're based on almost 3 decade old Delph

Re: [fpc-pascal] Funding for FOSS projects, needs funding.json file in Gitlab

2024-10-18 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM Alexey T. via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: 15 Oct news at Hacker News: https://floss.fund/blog/announcing-floss-fund/ They pay 1M $ per year, all FPC needs to apply is the fundin

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
On 18/10/2024 10:41, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote: For once, I'd be really glad if a bunch of the containers would be Thread-Safe by default, like TList and things, and they aren't, because they're based on almost 3 decade old Delphi concepts, when multithreading wasn't as big of a deal as

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal
Hi, On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal wrote: > >> 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal
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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 10/18/24 11:41 AM, Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi, On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: 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, be

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-10-18 Thread Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal
Hi, On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > 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. > > Embarc