Freepascal & Lazarus Meeting Cologne 10th/11th October

[mattias]

Website: https://www.blaisepascalmagazine.eu/en/fpc-lazarus-meeting-2024-info/

Notifications: editor@blaisepascalmagazine.eu

In order to keep production costs as low as possible, we took the catering into our own hands, as the prices would otherwise have been far too high. As a result, the prices were halved from €100 per day to just €50 per day. It doesn't get any cheaper than that. So it will only cost €100 for these 2 days. This includes coffee, tea, soft drinks and a buffet consisting only of fresh products on both days.
All speakers will appear free of charge and are only doing so to support the community and make this event possible.

Topics:

Fresnel: a new graphics component library now also in WebAssembly

Lazarus: Introduction of an important and long-awaited option: The docked look and the drop-down menu during the installation of Lazarus.

FMX in Lazarus: Compiling FMX applications from Delphi in Lazarus.

Castle Game Engine: Course on embedding within an LCL application.

A brief history of AI and Pascal in education.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

[TRon]

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,68271.0.html
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,68315.0.html

The more the merrier 

[ccrause]

This sounds like a great meeting and I appreciate the effort to keep costs low. I am particularly interested in the FPC/Lazarus roadmap.

Is there an option to stream the discussions? Or at least record the sessions?  My reason for asking this is that I need a €1000 ticket and a visa to get to Europe. In my case the external cost dwarfs the event cost completely.

[af0815]

+1 for stream or record maybe a payed access possible.

[Martin_fr]

I am particularly interested in the FPC/Lazarus roadmap.

The point is probably (as I would conclude) referring to the roadmap of some aspects only. At least on the Lazarus side I am unaware of a complete roadmap to even exist.
Well, in fact, I know it can not exist. Because if it existed it had to comprise the items that I may work on in future. And that list does not exist beyond the state of a loose collection of ideas in my head.

[ccrause]

I am particularly interested in the FPC/Lazarus roadmap.

The point is probably (as I would conclude) referring to the roadmap of some aspects only. At least on the Lazarus side I am unaware of a complete roadmap to even exist.
Well, in fact, I know it can not exist. Because if it existed it had to comprise the items that I may work on in future. And that list does not exist beyond the state of a loose collection of ideas in my head.

This is my uninformed impression as well.  My worry is that (especially on the compiler side) lack of planning for the future will eventually mean the end (well, nothing so spectacular, perhaps just a slowdown and eventual stagnation) of the compiler.  There is also no current philosophy for the Pascal language, either as part of FPC, or in general.  It worries me that there are ad hoc discussions about borrowing/copying features from other languages, without the background of a clear philosophy of what Pascal is or should become.

I do appreciate the current work put in by the core team, but it isn't clear if there are any strategy beyond the personal interests of individual core members.  Of course the interests of core members are important, this is what motivates them to contribute.  Rather the forward planning for the next 5+ years is what worries me.

Perhaps this is because there is no corporate backing or sponsorship to pay for the more admin type work.

[AlexTP]

I think the future is 2 main things:
- improving generic types / generic funcs / type helpers (we have issues in bugtracker)
- new archs:
== Win ARM 64bit (not done);
== Loongarch64 (done but needs fixes in bugtracker); 
== RISC-V are not done yet (fpcupdeluxe cannot install its cross on Linux);
== in the future: Elbrus 2000

And smaller things:
- Unicode RTL (work in progress)
- 'pure' functions as suggested in the bugtracker

[DragoRosso]

Is there anything new from the Cologne conference? It would be interesting to have some reports or documents on the topics discussed for those who could not be present. The most interesting features extracted from the conference would be truly appreciated.

[Hansvb]

+1

[nomorelogic]

+1

[nouzi]

+1