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Re:PureBasic switches to a C backend by as1mov on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @07:37AM (#28219861)
Does FPC/Lazarus have any kind of commercial backing by companies? Honestly the amount of platforms they support is pretty impressive, yet it remains pretty obscure.

The only other project I can think of which remains relatively unknown but still manages to chug along is Tcl (supported by Flightaware and a bunch of other companies iirc).

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Re:PureBasic switches to a C backend by coder543 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:05PM (#28224143)
I'm not sure what kind of commercial backing FPC or Lazarus have, if any. As I mentioned, I've never actually used it for anything serious, so I can't really speak to how good it is.

Yeah, there are a lot of relatively unknown projects that keep going. Pharo (a smalltalk inspired language) is another example of such a thing that I've also never used.

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