[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Bee Jay]

On 18 Mei 2010, at 01:42, Myles Wakeham wrote:

> Agreed.  PHP is a 'staple' in web development, and is benefited by a large number of mature frameworks supporting multiple design patterns, IDEs in large deployments (ie. Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.) and a huge community.

Well... with pascal you got Lazarus or Delphi, VCL or LCL, and also both community.

> However with that said, we are about to embark of developing much of our shipped application software in FPC/Lazarus simply because there is no way to protect our source code when provided to a client for them to host on their own servers.  This is a big weakness of PHP in general - sure there are obfuscation solutions out there, but I'm yet to find anything that I would be 100% happy with that my source is protected entirely.  Plus the performance degredation for PHP apps (if PHP wasn't slow enough in its default installation) affects my client's productivity.

Use pascal then. You just need to learn JS UI framework, my advice: ExtJS or Qooxdoo, for a while, perhaps about 1-2 weeks. Combine it with pascal on the server side. It would save you lots of time and work, especially since you already got the desktop version running well.

> I think there is a really good place for BOTH FPC/Lazarus/Delphi web apps AND PHP apps.  I don't see them as mutually exclusive here.  Many of our clients want to tweak the web pages that we serve and by using tools like Smarty, etc. in PHP I can give them access to the app and let them loose on their own sites without too much fear of disaster.  Of course, never say never....

I've made several web apps using pascal. Never need to use PHP. :)

-Bee-