[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:31 -0300, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> 2010/5/7 Razvan Adrian Bogdan <lightningflash at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> What do you use?
> Have you made any real app using some of these technologies and FPC?
> I would like to use FPC for my web apps, but I don't see many examples...
> 
> Does anyone uses FPC for real web applications?

Yes, offcourse.

Joost.