[Lazarus] Lazarus/FPC for Web Development only

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, silvioprog wrote:

> 2014-02-05 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>       On 02/05/2014 08:58 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>             I have succesfully developed such (big) projects in Lazarus:
>             Server side is Lazarus (more specific: fcl-web and the webdata/json-rpc modules)
>             Client side is ExtJS - but JQuery, qooxdoo or dojo (or whatever the hype is these days)
>             would work equally well.
> 
> Great !!!
> 
> IMHO, it would be a huge advantage, if the LCL would support this by an "xxx"- WidgetType / xxx = one of
> ExtJS, JQuery, qooxdoo or dojo (or whatever the hype is these days). :-)
> 
> (I remember ExtPascal on that behalf, but AFAIK, it never really worked decently and is sleeping right now.)
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
> There is any advantage to convert JS to Pascal and vice versa, because you would be doing the work that the browser
> already does. These conversions always end up decreasing performance, and let the programmer "prisioneiro" to a
> particular widget. And affect the maintainability, because instead I open and edit a simple JS, I need to edit the
> JS mixed in Pascal, recompile an executable and so on.

And that is why, starting soon, we'll let the FPC compiler output JS.

Michael.