[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Daithi Haxton wrote:

> Hi!
> I've not posted here before, but I've been reading this list for about six 
> months, and I've gotta weigh in on this one.
>
> By way of introduction, I'm the Sr. Software Engineer/Team Lead for a major 
> consumer electronics company in the US. We've been using C++ Builder for 
> several years as our PC compiler of choice. It's allowed us to develop robust 
> applications in very short time spans with very limited resources.

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>
> In summary, Lazarus is a fantastic product. It's usable TODAY for commercial 
> development. We've found it (the IDE) more stable on Windows than it's 
> commercial counterparts. RAD Studio will generally lock at least one of our 
> development machines once a day

Oh well, for me Delphi is no longer usable as a debugger since years.
So much for commercial products sometimes :/

> - so far we've had only one issue with 
> Lazarus, and that was on a Mac (and I reported the bug to Mantis, and it was 
> fixed in three days - try that with you-know-who ....). These discussions are 
> great, but please don't lose sight of what you've already got - a world class 
> compiler and development tool that's being used right now to solve serious 
> real world problems.

Which is exactly why I think that the person who started this thread has
tunnel-vision problems. The glass is half-full for me.

Thank you for this supportive comment !

Michael.