2022-11-26

Modern Pascal is Still in the Race

A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding in pascal. It is still fun after decades!
But does it mean that you should not use pascal for any new project? Are the language/compilers/libraries outdated?
In the company I currently work for, we have young coders, just out-of-school or still-in-school, which joined the team and write great code!

And a recent thread in this very same forum was about comparing languages to implement a REST server, in C#, Go, Scala, TypeScript, Elixir and Rust.
Several pascal versions are about to be contributed, one in which mORMot shines.

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2013-10-09

Good old object is not to be deprecated - it is the future

Yes, I know this article title is a huge moment of trolling for most Delphi developer.
But object could be legend... - wait for it - ... dary!

You perhaps already noticed by several blog posts here that I still like the good old (and deprecated) object type, in addition to the common heap-allocated class type.
Plain record with methods does not match the object-oriented approach of object, since it does not feature inheritance.

When you take a look at modern strongly-typed languages, targeting concurrent programming (you know, multi-thread/multi-core execution), you will see that the objects may be allocated in several ways, to facilitate execution flow.

The Rust language for instance is pretty interesting. It has optional task-local Garbage Collection and safe pointer types with region analysis.

To some extent, it is very similar to what object allows in the Delphi world, and why I'm still using/loving it!

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