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Shout-out to Lazarus/FreePascal. It is like all the best parts of Delphi 5-7, and it is open source, free, and you can make commercial applications in it! I ha
by analognoise 10y ago
Shout-out to Lazarus/FreePascal. It is like all the best parts of Delphi 5-7, and it is open source, free, and you can make commercial applications in it!
I have started using it in earnest and it is wonderful - and a company can never take it away from you; there's no "we're shifting focus..." announcements. No paid support for broken updates.
I honestly can't recommend it enough.
- ziotom78 10y agoI can confirm this. I have used it a couple of years ago for a GUI app I needed at work (1): Lazarus was a real time saver! When a colleague asked me if he could use my app under Windows, the porting process was 100% painless: all the code (~1000 lines of code) recompiled in an instant and the application worked like a charm. (1) https://github.com/ziotom78/hpview/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/ziotom78/hpview/blob/master/README.md
- boznz 10y ago+1 Amazing IDE and yes I have made a couple of commercial applications in it now :-)
- Animats 10y agoI just ported an old Pascal program to Free Pascal, and it went very well. It's a nice system.
- jug 10y agoAlso FreePascal does dependency free compiles to a crapload of platforms. Crazy! So crazy this could be a use case by itself.