_veelo

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by _veelo 4y ago
What's the problem?
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by _veelo 4y ago
Free Pascal was actually on the shortlist of SARC, together with Ada and D [1]. We had different requirements though: GUI was not an issue as we have our own GUI; neither was an IDE. What was very important in our case was D’s compile time
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by _veelo 6y ago
What would these compilers have as advantage over the existing compilers? Back when there was just one D compiler the common complaint was that this was too few. Now that there are three you sometimes read that there are too many. This is t
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by _veelo 6y ago
I work for another company also putting its eggs in the D basket (SARC). We do not consider this risky because of two main reasons: 1) D is not dependent on the funding of one big corporation, so our future is not at the mercy of such corp
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by _veelo 8y ago
1. Unconsidered edge cases? We'll have to find out... We can always change the _source_ code to eliminate known unhandled edge cases. 2. We ourselves are heavy users of our software, and are likely to be the first to discover "odd
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by _veelo 8y ago
To be frank: I have never used Rust nor Go. Nevertheless, I am quite sure closures and goroutines would complicate the translation due to different syntax from ordinary functions. The same argument is being discussed at reddit https:/
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by _veelo 8y ago
Confirmed.
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by _veelo 8y ago
Indeed!
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by _veelo 8y ago
Indeed, it serves encapsulation.
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by _veelo 8y ago
This is the approach I took to modernise Fairway (which is just one component of our suite). It doesn't free us from the limitations of the Extended Pascal compiler. It still works, but we want a way out.