Lazarus and FreePascal would beg to differ:
Everything you ever loved about Delphi 7, but with a ton of modernization. LGPL, too!
Everything you ever loved about Delphi 7, but with a ton of modernization. LGPL, too!
Not so surprising, given the backgrounds of the key designers of Go, I feel. Griesemer even got his PhD under Mössenböck and Wirth.
"A Programming Language for Vector Computers"
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42....
As a user on an hypothetical Oberon workstation, I would rather have Active Oberon than Oberon-07 as official systems language.
I guess if you want to make gobs of cash, fine. You could also just go into finance and make more than FAANG money if you're talented enough.
Even if there is 2 step forwards, one step back, the overall benefit of options available due to the vast number of people contributing their creativity is only possible due to these companies.
They’re also one of the top AI/ML research institutions in the world with a huge chunk of the papers published at top conferences.
Similar statements are also true of Google.
Also there are other Pascal to JavaScript transpilers, which use other dialects of Object Pascal, such as DWScript and Smart Pascal.
Either way those are things that allow you to use Free Pascal code in the web on the client side, but they aren't really "Lazarus" things. Once the full RTL can be used via pas2js or wasm, it could be possible to make a web-based backend for LCL but that would feel kinda alien as you'd essentially be embedding a desktop application inside a web page.
It is also possible to make new form (object) designers for a new type of form (object) that acts more like a Flash page or something like that, but that would require a lot of work. On the other hand it might make making mobile apps better too.
"Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion"