[Lazarus] [PATCH] components/turbopower_ipro: added the Iphttpbroker and its example

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2016-01-27 01:51, Fabrício Srdic wrote:
> To summarize my opinion: if I am java programmer, would be better if I can
> solve my problem via Java classes than using C library binds.

I think it is safe to say we would all love such a solution for Object
Pascal too. But unfortunately C is an overwhelmingly popular language,
and most core functionality of an OS or library is implemented in it.

Java is more popular than C (depends which stats you look at obviously),
and thus it too has a lot of pure Java implementations of many things.
eg: parsers, database libraries, database engines, graphics engines, etc

Bottom line is, these two language show that you need to have a massive
market share for something like that to happen [at such a scale].


> Lazarus GUI framework was developed using pure pascal ( like fpGUI) instead
> of using external libraries and frameworks,

Personally I agree that LCL was implemented the wrong way (not custom
drawn), but I also need to correct you, or at least point out that even
though fpGUI Toolkit implements ALL widgets in pure Object Pascal, and
even has its own Object Pascal 2D graphics library for sub-pixel
anti-aliased drawing, it too relies on external libraries. How else is
fpGUI going to talk to X11, Win32, OS/2 etc. At some point it needs to
talk to the windowing system of the OS (which is most likely implement
in C, as some library). fpGUI's dependencies are magnitudes smaller than
LCL, but there are still dependencies - you simply can't avoid that,
other than implement a whole OS, windowing system, window manager etc in
Object Pascal too.


> we could develop mobile apps using Lazarus today.

As far as I know there is work being done to allow Lazarus to develop
Android applications. I guess this work simply hasn't been made public
yet, as it likely is still incomplete and under development.


ps:
I welcome you to implement a Android backend for fpGUI. ;-) Somebody is
apparently working on this already, though I don't know the status or
progress.

Regards,
  - Graeme -

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