---- On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:34:01 -0400 Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
<mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote ---
Please notice that Telegram does not spend any money in marketing!
Telegram is one of the most popular messenger:
https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-popular-messaging-apps
I don't think the situations are vary similar, so I don't think the comparison
is useful. Messaging apps are relatively new and the market is in a state of
flux. No one has much of an investment in their messaging app - they could
change in an instant. But the programming language market requires substantial
investment in learning. The technical debt of active systems is also huge. It
is not nearly as easy to change programming languages as messaging apps!
User privacy is a huge draw for messaging apps. There is nothing comparable in
programming languages except maybe simplicity. But Object Pascal has already
succumbed to the lure of complexity that accompanies features like generics,
attributes, redefined operators, and other decorative comments.
Doug C.
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