[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Reimar Grabowski wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:49:18 +0100 (CET)
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> FPC can produce Java Bytecode and can leverage the whole Java API and all Java libraries.
> But neither FPC nor Lazarus can give you all the goodies the Android SDK Eclipse plugin can give you (integrated debugger, profiler, gui designer, emulator/device manager just to name some) and the features that Eclipse provides and Lazarus does not come on top of that.
> FPCs Object Pascal is my favorite language by far. Nonetheless if there are tools that make stuff easier/more convenient for me I have no problem switching to other languages.
> I just don't get all this 'this is better than that' stuff (generally speaking, not directed at you Michael). For some people it is for others it is not. Freedom of choice is the important part not that everybody uses the tools I like the most.
> FPC is not the holy grail of programming just a very good compiler.

Luckily, I didn't claim any such thing :)

I just wanted to state that if you want, you can leverage all the Java APIs.

I can do anything I want/need with FPC/Lazarus itself, for me that is good enough.

>> I just wrote an article on how to write an Android app, using only the Android Java APIs.
> Can you send it to me or tell me where to get it, please?

Unfortunately, not yet. It's not yet published :/

Michael.