<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_13585">Hello,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15479"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15478">I earning my money as delphi developer (now 20years).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_14806" dir="ltr">In the freetime I support Lazarus/FPC.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_14828"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15236">The system I wrote (in the company) is in-house software used</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15237">by about 150 users per day. (it's built with D7)</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15238"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15239">D7 was fast/stable. We bought several new versions of Delphi in the past 13years but</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15240">none of the new versions was as handy as D7.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15241">But now I am working with Delphi XE 10.2 Tokyo and I must say it's very ok! I can recommend it.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15242">I would say they are back again :-) ( Hopefully they will remove the dependency to .NET-stuff )<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15243"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15480">Now let's talk a little about Lazarus...</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15481">It's incredible which progress this project has made!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_16628">The recent improvements in the IDE and Installer area (fpcupdeluxe and online package manager) make</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_17860">things really better for new users.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_79776"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_80971">To attract more/new users to Object-Pascal "universe" the following things would help: (applies for both Delphi and Lazarus)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_80993"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_81015">A) a way to give a whole project from one developer to another developer. (no fiddeling around with missing packages/components/paths/environment-path).</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_81125"> e.g. a Menu-Option "Export-Project" which creates a bundle <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_81236" lang="en"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_81237">with all necessary files)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_19092">B) Examples that work out of the box. ( when I choose examples in Lazarus, half of them do not work).</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_87311">C) Beginner Videos.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_21864"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_19046"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15482">Sam<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509262099428_15483"><br></div></div></body></html>