This indeed violates that "goal", but please don't evaluate lazarus as
a complete product. There is a bug tracker, with very friendly and
responsive developers, as you have noticed.
That's why I said he's not ready to join an open source project
_driven_ by community. I never mean to discourage him, but I think one
who would jump to _native_ cross platfrom programming, s/he had to be
ready to face the compatibility problem. It's the consequences. Even
Java can't really solve the problem completely.
'Lazarus and Free Pascal aim to be write once, compile anywhere for
those
programs which only use the supported operating system features
that share a
common design'.
And I would've thought that this was obvious. There are just some
things you cannot abstract/emulate.
Exactly. Even those platforms don't have same thought about what is
"common". What Java does is nothing more than standarized the "common"
things within its own environment. But, whether it's common to the
native platform, it's very much questionable. Obviously he can't see
the obvious.
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