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Practical Ways to Help Lazarus and Free Pascal Thrive?
silvercoder70:
Over the past year(s), a question on the popularity of the language pops up in discussions — like the question on the FPC mailing list about how to attract more users, and more recently on the forums: “Why isn’t Lazarus / Free Pascal more popular?” These are valid concerns (seriously), but the conversations (in my opinion) tend often drift into retrospectives or unproductive comparisons.
To help us move toward a more positive and constructive direction — one that’s focused on growth and the future — maybe it’s time to reframe the question, to something like:
“What realistic and community-driven steps could we take to grow the Lazarus / Free Pascal ecosystem and make it more welcoming to new developers?”
I’d love to hear your ideas — what’s one thing you think we could do, build, or improve that would make a real difference for new or returning users?
(And perhaps use this thread to collect constructive, forward-thinking suggestions that could help shape the next chapter for Lazarus and Free Pascal.)
Martin_fr:
Well here are a few ideas...
1) Contribution: E.g. to documentation, maintaining the wiki, ... An up to date representation will certainly help people. Also translations.
2) Represent on all sort of social media.
Including viewers/readers needed, that then make the posts popular and relate them to other posts.
E.g. on youtube: comment to help the popularity of a video. Watch other already popular videos on other programming backgrounds, that come up as suggestions when viewing fpc/lazarus, so youtube gets the "viewers of this also watched". (No I don't know how youtube does the association...)
3) Help with sending announcements to local media (and internet media/magazines)
Most computer magazines would happily (and free of charge) print an release announcement. If only they were given it. That may need some coordination. But this is also an international effort (as each country has its own media).
Not sure if internet media will take such contributions too.
This requires some skill in writing those announcements.
Thaddy:
Write killer apps, like e.g. doublecommander which is quite popular in the Linux community and advertises Freepascal at startup.
Joanna:
How can something thrive when it’s nearly impossible to find other people interested in it to talk to outside of one forum? I remember when many people thought pascal was great and liked to talk about it. Not anymore. Nobody cares.
Martin_fr:
--- Quote from: Joanna from IRC on May 08, 2025, 04:10:41 pm ---How can something thrive when it’s nearly impossible to find other people interested in it to talk to outside of one forum? I remember when many people thought pascal was great and liked to talk about it. Not anymore. Nobody cares.
--- End quote ---
There are plenty of people who talk, chat, do, meet, and more.
It may not be broadway right now, but its out there, very much alive.
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