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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Florian Klämpfl
<florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 28.12.2013 13:37, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
>> Am 2013-12-28 13:19, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
>>>> I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java
>>>> instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If
>>>> they care, why they would be leaving Delphi?
>>> If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a
>>> marginal oss compiler.
>>
>> The question is:
>> Why did they use Delphi before at all?
>>
>> If the reason was that Delphi was a very common and widespread
>> programming environment
>> then it is a understandable behaviour to move to the next main stream
>> environment
>> as soon as budget and time allows.
>> Such people would never care about FPC/Lazarus (even when it was fully
>> Delphi "compatible").
>> They would never think about using it.
>> So making FPC/Lazarus "compatible" would not hold any user of this group.
>
> The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting
> usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches
> delphi leaves open. Everything else is "by-catch".
>
>>
>> If the reason was that they like Pascal as an easy to learn and
>> mantain language then they will invest into migration even
>> if not all parts are the identical to Delphi.
>> Just the opposite:
>> They may like that not all misconcepts are repeated in
>> FPC/Lazarus and they may like that it is open source.
>
> GPC proved your argumentation wrong. GPC took the "clean way" of
> extended pascal (you always complain about fpc's dyn. arrays. Just use
> GPC, it has the clean solution) Unfortuntaly GPC development stopped for
> years due to missing contributors.  The people keeping FPC alive are
> those interested in Delphi compatibility.

Right.
I didn't understand one thing: If I'm a Delphi XE2 programmer
(suppose), why I will need to keep FPC compatible with Delphi? If I'm
a Delphi programmer I will use... Delphi.

Marcos Douglas