Practical Ways to Help Lazarus and Free Pascal Thrive?

[Kralle]

Hello,

If i look to https://www.freepascal.org/ i can't find a information since what time the page is online.
The same on https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?action=forum.

How old is Freepascal? How old is Pascal?

This information show newcommers that there is an many experience in this language and it is a simple way,

On https://github.com/  are 1100 entries about Freepascal,
Lazarus 3900, Delphi 20600 , Pascal 20700.

I think there is an great base of code, but nobody knows.

Sorry, for my bad english.
Kralle
https://www.lazarusforum.de/
https://lazarus-konferenz.de/
https://pascalconference.de/

[Martin_fr]

As for the forum, the closest to an answer, the first post it (still?) has: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,2

As for Lazarus, there is history on the wiki https://wiki.freepascal.org/History

Not sure how that would best be represented. Not sure how prominent that needs to be made...

[alpine]

@Joanna
Can you just stop whining about the IRC?
There is a FPC discord channel where people are having a really great time. Please don't go there.

[Joanna]

Why would anyone want to go to a non official chat on a spyware platform owned by someone who doesn’t even program in pascal?

[Fibonacci]

IRC fits FPC perfectly - it too is old and ugly No way Im using IRC.

[Joanna]

Fibonacci, Maybe it was your client making it look ugly? You can make your own client any way you want using pascal.

[alpine]

@Fibonacci
Please, don't feed. It is a same over and over, a repellent...

[Joanna]

Alpine let’s hear your amazing idea of how to make the community thrive shall we?

[marcov]

FPC's rough old history is in the first FAQ item on the website:

https://www.freepascal.org/faq.html#WhatIsFP

[JanRoza]

Wow fpc was started back when pascal was at the peak of popularity. I didn’t know that..

Does this sarcastic answer helps anyone? 

[munair]

I’m not being sarcastic!  I was impressed 

You talk a lot about Pascal and you have 1400+ posts on this forum, but you don't know the basic history?

[Joanna]

I didn’t know I was supposed to. Nobody ever talked to me about it before..

[PascalDragon]

When I first discovered Lazarus in 2014 there was a link from forums that led to real-time support with real fpc and Lazarus developers and enthusiasts talking about interesting things everyday. Now I’m supposed to believe that  it’s just a made up Fantasy that never happened at all. I’m supposed to not care that such a valuable resource was abandoned?

But even then it wasn't a dedicated support. It simply happened to be users that used IRC, because they considered it as comfortable enough. Nowadays they/us simply have no interest anymore to lurk in something like that. You can't force anybody to do anything they don't want.

I didn’t know I was supposed to. Nobody ever talked to me about it before..

There is no “supposed to”, but you could have been curious about it before this and researched it yourself.

[TRon]

Nowadays they/us simply have no interest anymore to lurk in something like that. You can't force anybody to do anything they don't want.

Let us set the record straight there.

The no interest part is only due to the behaviour of one single person. Guess who that is and is now whining for more than 3 years about that here on the forums (while repeatedly told not to do so) about the results of that behaviour.

That same behaviour is being attempted to copy-paste here on the forums on several occasions.

You reap what you sow and karma is a bitch.

[PascalDragon]

The no interest part is only due to the behaviour of one single person. Guess who that is and is now whining for more than 3 years about that here on the forums (while repeatedly told not to do so) about the results of that behaviour.

Well, at least the FPC devs had left before that time, because there wasn't really much interest anymore.