[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Marcos Douglas]

Razvan Adrian Bogdan <lightningflash at gmail.com>:
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> At some point in the past i would have blamed anyone for making a new FPC
> IDE especially one based on Lazarus or the LCL. Lazarus is now a mature
> project and much more stable but suffers from the same problem that many
> OpenSource projects suffer, an apparent lack of coordination and standards.
> It feels bloated because of the executable size but that's more of a
> compiler issue. It may not be the fastest IDE but it's certainly better than
> most (all) Java IDEs and probably VS and Mono too but i might be wrong.
> Lazarus could be so much better but because it inherits some old design
> issues would probably be better if it was redesigned, made more modular and
> follow some strict code writing rules. It needs a clear architecture so that
> anyone can find his/her way into the code without digging for days deeply
> into the sources.
> Lazarus is still a great project but if we want more people to contribute,
> it needs standards of doing things just like VCL has, code must be intuitive
> if we want people to like doing what they do, also the team should not
> restrict the abilities of the LCL but extend them on all platforms if
> possible. Looking at other similar projects and borrowing ideas wold only
> help the project become more attractive. Lazarus must make it simple for
> people to write CrossPlatform code in a non-restrictive way, allowing people
> to port Delphi stuff with little modifications but not restrict itself to
> Delphi's abilities.
> The mobile world is now a perfect place for Lazarus to "sink it's teeths
> into" if it knows how to occupy this space where there is little competition
> on the RAD side of things. On the web part after many years of Java slows
> apps, PHP code that let's you hit you fingers with a big hammer and ASP.NET
> technology that seems to be so hard to learn, Lazarus has a big change to
> make something that integrates easily on the Server and the Client side,
> maybe using NaCL on the client to build safe apps or simply "compile" to JS,
> Flash and Silverlight.
> Lazarus should be more like a cheetah following it's prey at high speed but
> now it just seems tired and hiding in the tall grass :)
> Large commercial projects succeed on the market because of coordination and
> standards, Lazarus needs this too, chatting and brainstorming sessions
> benefit everyone but OpenSource projects seem to have an "everybody for
> himself" attitude, maybe the Linux kernel would have failed too if it wasn't
> so strictly checked by the "benevolent" dictators ...
> Also not having a foundation or company to support the team only allows
> people to work in their spare time and that's not very productive, i know
> that this was discussed before (The Lazarus Project Foundation).
> Breaking stuff between versions is a bad ideea, if Delphi did this it would
> have died many years ago.
> Now is the time to either write a new IDE (not the whole LCL) or redesign
> the existing one using all the best features LCL has to offer, the LCL
> itself could be made less object oriented on the API abstraction part, and
> maybe the RTTI system if it is responsible for the big executables.
> Lazarus could even replace technologies like Flash and Silverlight with the
> right approach on the client side, i think some people are trying to do just
> that with things like VGScene/DXScene.

Great ideas!
I think the same and I agree completely.


Marcos Douglas