[Lazarus] The future of the Lazarus IDE

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Luca Olivetti via lazarus wrote:

> El 24/11/19 a les 22:56, Marco van de Voort via lazarus ha escrit:
>> 
>> Op 2019-11-24 om 22:35 schreef Luca Olivetti via lazarus:
>>>
>>>> Web only apps is not really my cup of tea. I
>>>> don't always work where there is good any any internet.
>>>
>>> But you can run a custom web app on a local server, no internet needed.
>> 
>> Sure, basically when we did webapps we always had local installs for 
>> testing etc. But if it is to work on a single laptop, it must not 
>> reference any service on the web. So you must even be able to generate 
>> it with other locations for default javascript scripts.
>
> No, that's not what I meant. I meant an internal network with an 
> application specific server used by many clients.
>
>> 
>>> I never wrote something like that, but I have some applications where 
>>> that could be useful.
>> 
>> Mostly testing, and when you have to. But it is not something I prefer, 
>> more a hard way to do a simple thing
>
> Sure, for me it's easier to develop a rich native client with lazarus, 
> but I wouldn't mind if, just for *some* specific cases, lazarus allowed 
> me to easily develop a full fledged web application, independent from 
> any external server. It seems that the infrastructure is mostly there 
> (fcl-web, pas2js, etc.) it "just"[*] needs some support from the ide 
> (that's what this poll was about, right?).

In order to see the full potential of web components, the IDE needs to be
web-enabled. This can be done through recreating the IDE as a web
application itself (VS Code, Atom, electron etc) or by allowing it to talk
to a browser (by embedding the browser, or invoking the browser somehow).
Both approaches are possible.

In that sense, this is indeed what the poll is about.

Michael.