Thread: mediaserv: choice of languages/platforms [poll]
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2008-03-17 , 16:28
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
But... it's *Pascal* FFS.
It's object pascal, please
Does it have garbage collection?
No, you have to take care of freeing objects yourself.
OTOH it has a native string type that you don't have to allocate/deallocate.

Threading is something "to be improved in the next version", which is worrying.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, and I use threading all the time.

D and Vala both look interesting, and up to the challenge. With Vala slightly ahead of D, IMHO.
I don't really know them, but they both seem to be too much like C to be any good FFS
(maybe they're better, but I can usually recompile the whole lazarus ide in the time that gcc compiles "hello world", and seeing that vala translates to C which is then compiled to native code....maybe you enjoy watching paint dry )