On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ralf Quint via Lazarus
<lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
> If you are looking into all "new" stuff, it's nothing more than turning
> into Homer Simpson ("Oh, shiny!"). You spend more time to try and stay
> atop of all the latest fads but don't get anything real done. There
> might be the one or two things that some of those new gadgets can do
> better/easier but in the long run, barely any of them is of
> significance, by any count, in a few years...I totally agree with you. That is one of the reasons that I continue using Object Pascal. I work in a company but I work as a freelancer/consultor as well. I use Object Pascal in both cases, but as I said in other email, sometimes it is difficult choose Object Pascal to build software for my clients because they think that it's an obsolete technology. > I can do everything I need to do (and then some) with > FreePascal/Lazarus. Yes, there are some areas where a bit more work is > needed, like being able to create Android/iOS applications with Lazarus > in the way it can be done with Delphi, or creating applications for > macOS. Or coding for embedded stuff with AVR based boards. Something > that IMHO should be put more focus on than adding the latest fads from > other programming languages to the compiler, just because some people > THINK they need this. +1 I agree, again. Best regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
