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Comment #48165066
That's exactly what I'm doing. :-) The world doesn't need another clone of FPC or Delphi. Blaise is Pascal for 2026+ without legacy baggage.
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Comment #48063398
Do you know if there is ongoing work to support x86_64 on Windows?
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Comment #48063296
Every new compiler needs to be bootstrapped by something - unless you head straight into Assembly Language from day1 - but I'm not that crazy! Yes, Blaise reached self-hosting afte…
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Comment #48063176
fpGUI Toolkit will be made to work with Blaise. [1] Homepage (terrible looking): https://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ [2] Github repo: https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI/ The Discussion ar…
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Comment #48063114
And FPC also supports interfaces without GUIDs via the {$interfaces CORBA} directive, and it too, supports the Supports(...) construct just fine. Delphi is just very Windows-centri…
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Comment #48063087
It's magic! ;-) Not wanting to go into too much technical details: Blaise's interface system uses TypeInfo pointers as identity tokens. Meaning manually added GUIDs are not needed.…
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Comment #48062912
Thank you. fpGUI is 20 years old this year! :-D
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Comment #48062899
Yes it has been fantastic to work with QBE so far. It's way simpler than LLVM, giving you about 70% of the LLVM performance, for 10% of the effort. :) Only downside is Windows supp…
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Comment #48062856
Every new project starts at Day 1. :-)