[DUG] Lazarus

[Jan Bakuwel]

Hi Paul,

...snip...
> So to make progress we had to make a move.
> Which has proven great as the Lazarus project has grown and matured,
> and Delphi licenses remained static in nature, so the time has been
> well invested moving, at the time it was sad to be leaving Delphi
> though having signed up in Borland's day.

I too have used Delphi since version 2 but the business model (of
perpetual upgrades of *everything*) is not sustainable / financially
feasible for my company.

I think it's indeed well worth investing in alternatives, such as Lazarus.

>
> You sometimes have to research more, and do more homework in Lazarus,
> but the time is well spent and you obtain a better scope and knowledge
> of what is achievable.
> And if you make full Forum postings—others benefit too.

The open source community has proven to be superior where it comes to
bug fixes... I recall spending many many days finding workarounds for
bugs in RTL for the MacOS target and fixes were never released (for the
version of Delphi I got "stuck" with).

My two cents.

Jan


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