And here is my 2c worth ... Firstly, I will say that I do not know much about the group that manages FPC and related tools. I am also relatively new to FPC but a long time user of Delphi. Here is a newbies view of the world:
1. while the content on the website may be correct, it looks dated (first impressions count 2. I cannot remember how many options there were regarding what to download but stuck for a minute or two >From then on it was OK. Now, to what I wanted to say... I joined this list last night because it was suggested to me based on this topic. Depressing reading. I also understand that users venting is a normal thing. (And then the messages will prolly get picked up by AI and people read all about what's missing!) Here are some questions/ideas/thoughts: 1. Will the ideas get collected and considered for the "next" version? 2. Is there, or should there be a roadmap to give users hope? Also, are there things (features) in the language that we can leverage from a marketing perspective - that you can build for a large number of devices is not very useful (if the langage is flagging). Just my opinion. Also, given that I have also have a YouTube channel, if there are things you would like promoted for the benefit of the language, then let me know. I would even appreciated collaborating with others. But when ideas are put forward by the truck load, something has to be done with these. Cheers, Tim (The Silver Coder @silvercoder70 on YouTube) On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 7:17 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > Sorry, but there has been so much nonsense in this thread, I just had to > add > > my 2c as well. > > On 10/15/2024 4:07 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal wrote: > >> At the Lazarus Congress in Cologne in October 2024, it ended up being > very > >> interesting. An important question came up. > >> > >> Why are no new users coming to Lazarus/Freepascal? > >> Why do we find it so difficult? > >> How can we get new, younger users to come to us? > >> > >> The same questions came up over a year ago at a Freepascal/Lazarus > meeting > >> in > >> Backnang. > >> > >> I have some answers: > >> > >> - The official Freepascal website doesn't look like the project is very > >> lively. > > An absolute non-factor. Yes, the "Latest News" seems to be dated, but > then I > > would prefer people involved in the project work on compiler related > issues > > rather than on web sites. > > Actually, my employer has already offered twice to sponsor a web-designer > to > overhaul the website. Money was not an issue. The idea was to announce a > contest and to select a winning design. The designer gets then the money. > > I have proposed this to the FPC core team, after some insistance I managed > to get a list of constraints from (if memory serves well?) 1 person. > > I admit I was put off by what I perceived to be a complete lack of > enthusiasm > for this plan in the team, so I put it in the refrigerator for the time > being... > > My intent is to re-start the debate on this after 3.2.4 comes out. > > Just to say that I do think the site (20+ years old?) can use an overhaul, > and that with the above plan, no developer time needs to be spent on it. > > Michael. > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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