Am 28.12.2013 11:01, schrieb Marcos Douglas: >> incompatibilities Free Pascal might have with Delphi. The language still >> stays a lot more similar than the alternative. Yet, looking at the >> current employment market, it seems most companies opted to rewrite >> there Delphi projects in C# and Java - so they took the even harder >> route! Why? Probably due to more innovation happing in those other >> languages.
I'am pretty sure this is not the case. It is a story of “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.” > > "...most companies opted to rewrite there Delphi projects in C# and Java..." > > I agree. I see this here in Brazil too. > So, if the companies prefer to rewrite everything to another language, > this is another prove that people do not want compatibility with > Delphi (so much). And you think they would switch instead to some marginal OSS language which is compatible to nothing and nobody knows? C# and Java are used because they provide a huge user base (user in the sense of programmers knowing it) and being developed by huge companies so people expect their code base has a future. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
