[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Feb 25 18:49:18 CET 2012



On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote:

> How about the reluctance to put documentation in library code? The policy with fpdoc is to create documentation separately from code. The problem is who has
> time for that. If documentation goes into the code it is better as it forces you to think clearly about what your are doing as you are doing that knowing
> that others depend on it, especially if there is a strict community code of ensuring that docs in the code are always correct and up to date, and that if
> they are not accurate they should be removed altogether. I am developing a FreePascal Lazarus program now, owing to my familiarity with Delphi, but at the
> same time I am keenly aware that in domains I am unfamiliar with I would probably better using Java, Python because the tools and libraries would be much
> better.

You don't need to choose.

FPC can produce Java Bytecode and can leverage the whole Java API and all Java libraries.

I just wrote an article on how to write an Android app, using only the Android Java APIs.

It's remarkably easy.

Michael.




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