Lazarus
Miscellaneous => Suggestions => Topic started by: trev on November 30, 2020, 04:09:12 am
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... the Free Pascal Compiler for Apple Silicon Macs (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini).
Why? Assuming they manage to actually keep to their recently-released roadmap (https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-roadmap-november-2020/), EMB Inc are promising a macOS ARM64 Delphi compiler for the second-half of next year... FPC trunk has had support for Apple Silicon (https://wiki.freepascal.org/macOS_Big_Sur_changes_for_developers#ARM64.2FAArch64.2FApple_Silicon_Support) since 18 July this year.
Anyone have magazine contacts? News web sites contacts?
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In Germany, the journal c't (https://www.heise.de/ct/) by Heise and the Entwickler (https://entwickler.de) magazine may be interested, in addition to the Heise Developer Channel (https://www.heise.de/developer/).
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support for Apple Silicon (https://wiki.freepascal.org/macOS_Big_Sur_changes_for_developers#ARM64.2FAArch64.2FApple_Silicon_Support) since 18 July this year.
FPC has support for Apple silicon for ages (15 years +), not since this year. Maybe you confuse the update to recent Apple silicon with FPC's support for older Apple silicon?
I have been using FPC on Mac mini's for a great many years.
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support for Apple Silicon (https://wiki.freepascal.org/macOS_Big_Sur_changes_for_developers#ARM64.2FAArch64.2FApple_Silicon_Support) since 18 July this year.
FPC has support for Apple silicon for ages (15 years +), not since this year. Maybe you confuse the update to recent Apple silicon with FPC's support for older Apple silicon?
I have been using FPC on Mac mini's for a great many years.
Then more correctly Apple Silicon M1. And that support definitely is new.
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Correct.
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Perhaps it may be a good idea if someone of the FPC and Lazarus teams (or the foundation) could prepare a template for a press release in English, which may then be translated by volunteers to local languages and sent to editorial boards of appropriate journals, magazines, newspapers and web sites. This can easily be done via eMail, Fax or contact forms, provided that there is some "official" text to rely on.
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Do I take it no-one from the FPC team is interested in promoting FPC? All we need is an "official" press release.
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Do I take it no-one from the FPC team is interested in promoting FPC? All we need is an "official" press release.
Do you think that they regularly read this forum? Perhaps one of the mailing lists may be a better place to inform them.
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Maybe that's the case and, if it is, then it's an unfortunate situation because most of the users are here. No I'm not expecting wholesale participation by the FPC team, or even posts, but no interest would be odd especially for the suggestions sub-forum. I did wait two weeks before posting after the first posts.
I don't know, maybe no-one thinks it's worth promoting FPC while it has a substantial advantage over the commercial competition.
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Thinking "it is worth promoting" and thinking "oneself is the one who has the skill and time and will to work on that" are two entirely distinct things.
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From my point of view as a mere enduser, this seems like an opportunity too good to pass up.
It is more or less why I ended up using FPC + Lazarus rather than Delphi 10.x because the macOS compiler could do 64 bit when the commercial competition could not, having promised and failed to deliver a 64 bit compiler for more than two years. The last time I'd used FPC + Lazarus was under macOS Tiger in 2007 to convert a Windows ADSL router utility from Turbo Delphi.
Anyway, if I write a press release (might as well do it here and get others input too), the FPC team might be willing to approve it officially with/without any relevant changes? If so, I'll happily do this and coordinate the effort.
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Do I take it no-one from the FPC team is interested in promoting FPC? All we need is an "official" press release.
The answer is yes. It has been like that for years.
The only promotion that I can remember came from Delphi itself.
When the very first Delphi iOS support came from FPC itself. (The later versions of Delphi didn't rely of FPC anymore).
The major issue here is that FPC team (and/or Lazarus team) are a technical team.
People do have knowledge and experience in software development, but not in a promotion.
Neither there's much interest in doing such promotion.
The promotion is typically left up to the community :)
I'd think FPC Foundation could do the promotion, but the foundation has its own goals.
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I'd think FPC Foundation could do the promotion, but the foundation has its own goals.
"The Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation is a non-profit organization whose goal it is to promote Free Pascal and Lazarus programming." That are their own words.
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"The Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation is a non-profit organization whose goal it is to promote Free Pascal and Lazarus programming." That are their own words.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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... the Free Pascal Compiler for Apple Silicon Macs (MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini).
Why? Assuming they manage to actually keep to their recently-released roadmap (https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-roadmap-november-2020/), EMB Inc are promising a macOS ARM64 Delphi compiler for the second-half of next year... FPC trunk has had support for Apple Silicon (https://wiki.freepascal.org/macOS_Big_Sur_changes_for_developers#ARM64.2FAArch64.2FApple_Silicon_Support) since 18 July this year.
Anyone have magazine contacts? News web sites contacts?
I don't normally peek in this part of the forum, but I happened to come across this now. Let me reach out to a few folks I know and see if there isn't some way to get a press release out.
I'll circle back later this week.
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and it should be promoted that Freepascal can work with AVR and ARM(STM32)
Because this is a big market at this time.
Maybe we need a demo for an Bluepill or Nucleo board
Read ADC, blink LED and this.
And use SPi and I2C