[Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Sun Nov 24 11:35:20 CET 2019


Am 24.11.19 um 10:30 schrieb Bo Berglund via lazarus:
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:50:07 -0500, Daithi Haxton via lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> 
>> For my 2 cents, keep Lazarus as an independent, native code IDE. We do instrumentation packages for manufacturing robots, and “the Web” is simply not an option. Laz makes us at least 10x more productive than any other option (and we’ve tried other options - we still maintain code in C++ and C# using VS and it’s a nightmare compared to the Lazarus environment).
>>
>> What really scares us is that all the mainstream OSes are becoming so Web and mobile centric - the way M$ is rumbling I seriously wonder if and how they’ll support any native development in the not too distant future. Lazarus, with it’s native abilities for Linux, gives us a clear path out should M$ abandon manufacturing and the desktop in general - and we are most appreciative!
>>
> 
> We are also using Lazarus for hardware related stuff with no help at
> all from the web!

I think this is *the* main advantage of FPC/Lazarus: you can use it for 
almost every type of application on any platform (sorry C64 users, we do 
not have a solution ... yet ;)).

> 
> I for one spend 3-4 months every year in my cottage where we only have
> mobile Internet and at speeds that vary depending on how many
> neighbors are visiting the island all at the same time. In popular
> summer weeks speeds go down into low single digit Mbit/s.

May I quote you in discussions :)))? Here in Germany, Sweden is always 
taken as an example where even the smallest cottage has internet by fiber.


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