News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011). Parent comment

Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by pjmlp on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:38AM (#22846448)
First current generation of developers needs to be willing to pay for their tooling, if they want to get something better than Bazaar quality.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by badsectoracula on Sunday April 12, 2020 @07:55AM (#22847628)
The fact that there are tiny shops like Xojo that make completely proprietary and niche languages and compilers show that there are developers that are willing to pay for their tools.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by pjmlp on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:19AM (#22848392)
Indeed and I would be quite curious about their customer demographics and target platforms.
[ Parent | on HN ]