[Lazarus] Lazarus (UTF8) and Windows: SysToUTF8, UTF8ToSys... Is there a better solution?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2013-12-27 22:49, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> Just look on e.g. the forums. All people are asking about Delphi packages.

And once those Delphi packages are ported to Free Pascal, nobody needs
Delphi any more. ;-)


> Point is if you make conversion harder PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN TRY!

Converting to Free Pascal and Lazarus will *always* be easier that
rewriting everything in C# or Java - no matter how many
incompatibilities Free Pascal might have with Delphi. The language still
stays a lot more similar than the alternative. Yet, looking at the
current employment market, it seems most companies opted to rewrite
there Delphi projects in C# and Java - so they took the even harder
route! Why? Probably due to more innovation happing in those other
languages.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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