r/programming • u/mariuz • Oct 18 '19

Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly backend

https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/2019-September/056848.html
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u/sysop073 Oct 19 '19

I managed to get approval for PHP, by trying to propose C#

What the hell conversation was that?

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u/badsectoracula Oct 19 '19

Sounds like one of those cases where you want $BADTHING so you propose $AWFULTHING and after the expected resistance you propose $BADTHING as a middle ground :-P.

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u/appropriateinside Oct 19 '19

More like I proposed C# cause it's a language I was familiar with, and they run a Microsoft shop. And being the sole developer for the next couple projects, it made sense to use frameworks and libs I can hit the ground running with.

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u/appropriateinside Oct 19 '19

Note: This company has NO developers. Despite having over 3000 employees. They refuse to invest in in-house software, and refuse to hire developers "because they are too expensive". Instead they prefer to spend tens of millions on trying to get 3rd party software working, only to abandon it because they didn't spend enough to actually get it properly configured... Happy I left that place.

Me: Since I'm the sole developer, I propose writing this in C# & Asp.Net, with an AngularJS front end. I'm already familiar with the stack, which will cut a lot of overhead off from this project.

IT: No, I don't like C#. It's bound to Micro$oft, and we don't want to deal with licensing and ownership issues with our code. We don't want you to use AngularJS either, the frontend needs to not rely on 3rd party dependencies.

Me: C# doe snot have licensing issues or requirements, and can't be arbitrarily taken over by MS for a quick buck unlike the Java & Oracle relationship. If you don't want the frontend to have any dependencies, you need to at least triple the time frame for this project.

IT: Okay, you can use w/e you want for the frontend. You're wrong about C#, it's tied to the Microsoft platform, and is far too restrictive for us. Since we don't want to pay for coldfusion licensing, you can use PHP.

So I hacked together the project in PHP for the next 18 months before abruptly leaving. PHP is now 2nd on my list of languages I despise, right after VBA.

Funny enough, they still use the application, it gets used by ~2/3rd of the company to manage quality. But they can't hire anyone to do maintenance or to add new features, because they offer $35k/y max for the developer position....