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Freepascal & Lazarus Meeting Cologne 10th/11th October
ccrause:
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--- Quote from: ccrause on August 30, 2024, 08:02:16 am ---I am particularly interested in the FPC/Lazarus roadmap.
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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.
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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
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