[Lazarus] Lazarus make me create better apps

[Marco van de Voort]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:40:56AM -0700, Myles Wakeham wrote:
> I've been struggling to find a way to compete in this market with 
> development environments like FPC/Lazarus, simply because although I 
> want do it in those technologies, the lack of tools, frameworks, etc. 
> means that I lose out bidding for those projects against other more 
> established frameworks (ie. ASP.NET developers, PHP, Ruby, etc.). 
> Simple things like session management, cookies, WYSIWYG HTML 
> development, etc all seems to require so much time to establish first 
> before I can start to craft the application, that I'm immediately 
> uncompetitive against others - particularly when the client has the 
> option to offshore outsource the development against a production line 
> 'farm' of developers in other countries.

I knew that these people

http://href.com/webhub:2126869336

were working on a FPC port a year back. IIRC they support both IIS and
Apache.

Also have a look at similar Delphi products (there must be at least a
handful) that might have developed a FPC port meanwhile.
 
> 2.	Performance is really poor.  We built a small FPC native Linux 
> solution for doing multi-million row set processing and found a 25x 
> speed improvement with it doing its work vs. PHP native.  There is no 
> doubt that FPC is a better option for the end code here.

That is very strange.
 
> is simply that using Visual Studio/ASP is a 'quick & dirty' way to get 
> the job done and many of these clients, particularly small businesses, 
> seem to be willing to accept that since they really have no internal 
> knowledge of software development and rely on the consultants to tell 
> them what is best for them.  

>From the Delphi webapps view, I think ASP.NET is a way more logical choice
and/or migration option than PHP.