On 06 Aug 2010, at 13:06, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
I guess that what prevented me over the years from changing from a vague curiosity about GPC and actually using it is the fact that it doesn't compile the vast majority of Pascal code out there. Had it supported delphi-like syntax with dialect modes like FPC it would probably have been way more used.
GPC's problem is not a lack of users, it's a lack of developers (which in turn, as has been discussed, is probably mostly due to the fact that it's written in C). And just like you don't/can't use GPC because it doesn't compile the code you are interested in, there are a bunch of people who don't/can't use FPC because it doesn't compile the code they are interested in.
I think that trying to cater to the same community as FPC would have helped GPC, all other things being equal. It would mainly have meant that its scarce development resources would have been even more thinly spread (not to mention that Delphi is constant moving target).
Jonas