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Weiss · 2022-10-04 00:34

while looking up some other language (Wolfram it was) I couldn't help
but noticed Delphi/Pascal is on 13th place. Moved up 7 places from its
20th place.

Isn't it a big jump? What happened?

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Thaddy · 2022-10-04 07:49

They finally agreed that FreePascal and Delphi (and others) are the
same familiy...
That was always a matter of contention.
Note that Tiobe is still not a good measure with sound statistics.
Merely and at most an indication.

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af0815 · 2022-10-04 11:41

Tiobe have also the problem not to find the correct name -> Pascal <-
for it. They are using a Productname for a programming language. Tiobe
is for me a boring company, not more, not less.

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Weiss · 2022-10-05 17:22

Quote from: Thaddy on October 04, 2022, 09:49:54 amNote that Tiobe is
still not a good measure with sound statistics. Merely and at most an
indication.

I was surprised. TBH I was studying Pascal for a fun of it, with full
understanding that this is just a hobby. Now, I see there are job
postings, and popularity somewhere along with Matlab, Go etc. I am not
looking for a career switch, but it feels good anyway.

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Leledumbo · 2022-10-12 10:08

Quote from: Thaddy on October 04, 2022, 09:49:54 amThey finally agreed
that FreePascal and Delphi (and others) are the same familiy...
Not yet, the plain Pascal is still ranked 269, far below Delphi/Object
Pascal at 18. But anyway yea:
Quote from: Thaddy on October 04, 2022, 09:49:54 amNote that Tiobe is
still not a good measure with sound statistics. Merely and at most an
indication.

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Zath · 2022-10-12 14:31

Embarcadero have recently been doing a lot of live Delphi bootcamps &
Q&A. Some of them are also being replayed as live streams.
This is likely to raise awareness somewhat.

Many of them would be of use to Lazarus users, particularly some of
the South African content as it was more generic pascal rather than
Delphi specific so the logic etc. would be equally valid.