[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote:

> Web programming in Lazarus/Delphi can be done in 3 ways:
> - Non persistent safe CGI, you have to do persistence yourself, this is ok,
> requires some work but is no the fastest way of doing things, you do get a
> free garbage collector <hint>Implement something like smart pointers in C++
> using operator overloading ?</hint>, interfaces are too much overhead.
> - Persistent building a module/plugin (not safe), or using FastCGI, SCGI or
> a small HTTP server behind a bigger one, i would probably try the HTTP
> backend (proxy) server behind the real server because FastCGI has poor
> support (very old apache module) and SCGI doesn't seem too well known.
> - The full thing with whatever backend, everything managed by Lazarus just
> like a desktop app something like Morfik/Intraweb, this is probably the
> least efficient way of doing web stuff but it would be ok if you only input
> data and output reports without the need to customize anything, people seem
> to complain about ASP.NET for being too difficult to learn and customize.
>
> I'm not sure if threading support is better now, last time i checked, there
> were still some issues with threads in FPC, the developer who wrote PWU
> complained a lot about threading support being a major obstacle in FPC, if
> you want a faster HTTP or FastCGI service instead of the slow but safe CGI
> you really need good/predictible threading and absolutely no leaks so the
> SmartPointer/ReferenceCounting would be really useful because in most
> projects there are other people that forget to free some stuff.

People who forget to free some stuff should not be encouraged. 
They should be taught to program right in the first place.

Michael.