On 28.02.2013 15:40, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:56:42 +0100
Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
As others already said: There are components or frameworks out there
that use modern Delphi features or frameworks of other languages that
make use of such features. Example: DSpring, which is a Delphi
dependency injection framework.
I did not find DSpring. Do you mean Spring4D? If this is the case I'd rather
stay with the real thing (meaning Spring Framework for Java).
Yes, sorry, I did indeed mean Spring4D. And staying with the real thing
does only help if you use Java...
By implementing them we can attract developers which got used to such features
and swear that
they can simplyfy work.
This I highly doubt. Why should I change languages only because FPC now has a
feature that I already have in Java/Ruby/Groovy/etc and leave all the libraries
and frameworks behind to get win32 only frameworks that are chasing the
features of the multiplatform ones I left?
If you are not a Pascal guy you won't become one just because FPC supports
closures or dependency injection or whatever.
There are people that aren't as fixed with their programming language as
me (though I DO use C/C++ or even Java if the need exists...) and do
take a look here and then for other languages, because they might be
unhappy with a few things. I have a friend for example who is - in his
company - a PHP developer (and he likes it), but when he started a
bigger hobby project he had taken a look at Free Pascal and liked it.
Delphi is trying hard to stay relevant and so is FPC by following because
becoming too different to Delphi will make the community quite a bit smaller.
That's all there is to the new features. Pascal is a niche language and will
stay one. There won't be the year of Pascal and suddenly thousands of
developers start using it. You may write the next Facebook in FPC and it won't
matter.
The interesting thing is how long can we afford to follow Delphi? They
added a {$ZEROBASEDSTRINGS} directive in XE3, added type helpers (they
didn't just add them because of nothing) and seem to want to add
automatic reference counting to TObject. Put this together with them
developing a completely new compiler and this *might* lead to them
dropping backwards compatibility. This event would be - in my opinion -
where we definitely need to stop swimming in their backwash and steer free.
Regards,
Sven
_______________________________________________
fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
