I am relative new to Lazarus and FPC - I come from the Microsoft .Net world.
As I am struggling through all available (lacking) information, I am wondering why there is so little information on Lazarus and FPC.
Yes, there are the Wiki pages. But almost all are out of date - looks like hey are not maintained by anyone.
And there is a developer blog (
http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.com/) - last post from 2015 and a total of 47 posts in 8 years.
On code project - one of the biggest code repositories, Free Pascal is non existent, and Delphi is almost non existent.
And when I search using google, the only thing I find is the outdated wiki.
A project will be as successful as its documentation:
- we need to share up to date knowledge
- we need example projects to learn how to use specific technologies
- we need to share the internals of the compiler
- we need to spread the word of these great projects (lazarus and FPC)
Good documentation and samples will attract new developers and it will increase the tiobe index for the language (as this is done by the count of pages that relate to a language, not it's user base or count of projects done in it).
Can we make a place available within the lazarus / free pascal sites where anyone can blog? With a specific blog area for the developers of laz and FPC?
Can we make a place available for sample projects?
Can we get links on the official website to the FPC and Lazarus blogs maintained by users?
It would help a lot for beginners and for starters with new areas of the development system.