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Rssowl wiki4/24/2023 Should Lazarus choose a target "audience" (business developers, students, researchers, web, databases, etc.) and plan roadmap to fit their needs? Or just continue as is? What do you think about all these? How do You see the future of the project and target audience? Who will use Lazarus/ are using it now? For which developers it fits better than other languages? Maybe there is a way back to ACM and other contests? Thus, students also has no more motivation to learn Pascal - business needs Java/C, contests do not accept Pascal. There is only Java and C++ available now:(Īnd I can remember that I participated in a quarter-final with Delphi in 20. What else is important for students? Contests!īut if you see at Programming Enviroment at IBM ACM ICPC (the biggest team student contest in the world): And there is a global tendency in moving from Pascal to Java, C++, again, because they fit better business needs. Indeed, in Russian universities it's still popular. Then I try and remember that Pascal from the beginning was a language for learning/researching. Many corporations invest money in Java, Lazarus does not have such a financial sources. for Web (e.g., SOAP, for Lazarus I know about wsdl toolkit 0.5, but it never worked for me)Īll this staff is very important for business projects, so of course Java+Eclipse is a very popular solution and it's very complicated for FPC+Lazarus to compete with them. ![]() SVN/CVS integration (Team SVN provider) Continuous integration systems (Jenkins, Hudson) If I compare FPC+Lazarus with Java+Eclipse for corporate use, i see that Java+Eclipse have: So I see that it's not very popular and want to ask how you see the future of FPC+Lazarus? Which role should it play? Language for serious business projects? Language for researchers and students? Or just a language to support old Delphi projects? Anything else? As myself I use it for the research (I'm a PhD student) and very rare on the job (our department, about 30 people, uses Java+Eclipse for development) as a replacement for complicated bash scripts (I know bash scripting, but not very well). ![]() But now I see that both are not very popular among my friend/collegues/other people around me.
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