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Delphi compiles extremely fast, is strongly typed, no GC, has templates, objects. Too bad Embarcadero positioning towards Enterprise with its relatively high pr

Delphi compiles extremely fast, is strongly typed, no GC, has templates, objects. Too bad Embarcadero positioning towards Enterprise with its relatively high pricing effectively derailed it as a mainstream language and killed its community.

egonelbre 11y ago
And doesn't have console support (AFAIK).
- clouddrover 11y ago
  If iOS and Android devices count as consoles (and I think some of them do) then Delphi has console support. :) Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org/ http://www.freepascal.org/) says it supports the Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii (to what extent and how well I don't know, never tried it). It also supports Win32, Win64 and FreeBSD so I suppose it could be made to work on the PS4 and XBox One without too much trouble. A real strength of Object Pascal is that it can be as low level (inline assembly, manual memory management, etc) or as high level (OOP, generics, etc) as you like. It satisfies most of the article's wishlist items. Today I happened to find a simple but still interesting programming language feature matrix on Ian Hixie's website: http://ian.hixie.ch/programming/ http://ian.hixie.ch/programming/ He'll have to update the Execution column for Free Pascal to be both "Native" and "VM" since Free Pascal 3.0 can now also compile to JVM byte code: http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM
krylon 11y ago
Well, there is FreePascal and the Lazarus IDE which appears to have been built by rather enthusiastic fans of ObjectPascal and the Delphi IDE. I tried to use it when I took over maintenance of a Delphi application developed in-house, because I had no prior experience with Delphi or Pascal. Both FreePascal and Delphi felt very, very similar to ObjectPascal and Delphi. Unfortunately, Lazarus crashed on me a lot both on Linux and OS X, so I gave up on it rather quickly. But it might work better on Windows.

egonelbre 11y ago

And doesn't have console support (AFAIK).

clouddrover 11y ago
If iOS and Android devices count as consoles (and I think some of them do) then Delphi has console support. :) Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org/ http://www.freepascal.org/) says it supports the Nintendo GBA, Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii (to what extent and how well I don't know, never tried it). It also supports Win32, Win64 and FreeBSD so I suppose it could be made to work on the PS4 and XBox One without too much trouble. A real strength of Object Pascal is that it can be as low level (inline assembly, manual memory management, etc) or as high level (OOP, generics, etc) as you like. It satisfies most of the article's wishlist items. Today I happened to find a simple but still interesting programming language feature matrix on Ian Hixie's website: http://ian.hixie.ch/programming/ http://ian.hixie.ch/programming/ He'll have to update the Execution column for Free Pascal to be both "Native" and "VM" since Free Pascal 3.0 can now also compile to JVM byte code: http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM

krylon 11y ago

Well, there is FreePascal and the Lazarus IDE which appears to have been built by rather enthusiastic fans of ObjectPascal and the Delphi IDE. I tried to use it when I took over maintenance of a Delphi application developed in-house, because I had no prior experience with Delphi or Pascal. Both FreePascal and Delphi felt very, very similar to ObjectPascal and Delphi. Unfortunately, Lazarus crashed on me a lot both on Linux and OS X, so I gave up on it rather quickly. But it might work better on Windows.