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> Not to say these are not valid reasons, or expectations one may have from a language, but - what exactly is Pascal being compared to? I mean, it's 2017. I ha

> Not to say these are not valid reasons, or expectations one may have from a language, but - what exactly is Pascal being compared to? I mean, it's 2017. I have been searching for it for 15 min now, but last month or so on hn there was a article comparing programming languages and compilers. fpc performance was comparable to c. Also a mvp production exe will be 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed.

cies 9y ago
> 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed. This is a pro of Pascal then :) I was also looking for the pros of Pascal in contrast to what we've come to expect of languages while skimming the article.
- oneweekwonder 9y ago
  Lazarus on ubuntu and windows is usable, i'm still struggling with macOS and there is legends and lore of ios/android support. It even seems to support qt, but I have not went there yet. Something else to mention about lazarus is you can hot compile the ide too add in components, fix issues; While using lazarus. It takes a couple of minutes to recompile and there a fail safe cli method to restore. But rather amazing if you wonder how long it takes to compile visual studio professional or qt. http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Configure_Build_Lazarus#The_Parts http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Configure_Build_Lazar...
  - cies 9y ago
    That's some interesting pros! Thanks man.
vram22 9y ago
>Also a mvp production exe will be 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed. And a hello world Free Pascal EXE can be as small as 57KB: $ dir fpc_hello.exe 07/26/2016 09:43 PM 57,402 fpc_hello.exe Source and output: $ type fpc_hello.pas program hello_1; { uses ; } var i: integer; BEGIN for i := 1 to 10 do begin writeln(i:4, ' Hello from Free Pascal'); end; END. $ fpc_hello 1 Hello from Free Pascal 2 Hello from Free Pascal 3 Hello from Free Pascal 4 Hello from Free Pascal 5 Hello from Free Pascal 6 Hello from Free Pascal 7 Hello from Free Pascal 8 Hello from Free Pascal 9 Hello from Free Pascal 10 Hello from Free Pascal I also checked the size of similar programs in C and D. C was about 22KB, IIRC. D was something more, don't exactly remember, but not a lot more, probably.

cies 9y ago

> 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed. This is a pro of Pascal then :) I was also looking for the pros of Pascal in contrast to what we've come to expect of languages while skimming the article.

oneweekwonder 9y ago
Lazarus on ubuntu and windows is usable, i'm still struggling with macOS and there is legends and lore of ios/android support. It even seems to support qt, but I have not went there yet. Something else to mention about lazarus is you can hot compile the ide too add in components, fix issues; While using lazarus. It takes a couple of minutes to recompile and there a fail safe cli method to restore. But rather amazing if you wonder how long it takes to compile visual studio professional or qt. http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Configure_Build_Lazarus#The_Parts http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Configure_Build_Lazar...
- cies 9y ago
  That's some interesting pros! Thanks man.

vram22 9y ago

>Also a mvp production exe will be 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed. And a hello world Free Pascal EXE can be as small as 57KB: $ dir fpc_hello.exe 07/26/2016 09:43 PM 57,402 fpc_hello.exe Source and output: $ type fpc_hello.pas program hello_1; { uses ; } var i: integer; BEGIN for i := 1 to 10 do begin writeln(i:4, ' Hello from Free Pascal'); end; END. $ fpc_hello 1 Hello from Free Pascal 2 Hello from Free Pascal 3 Hello from Free Pascal 4 Hello from Free Pascal 5 Hello from Free Pascal 6 Hello from Free Pascal 7 Hello from Free Pascal 8 Hello from Free Pascal 9 Hello from Free Pascal 10 Hello from Free Pascal I also checked the size of similar programs in C and D. C was about 22KB, IIRC. D was something more, don't exactly remember, but not a lot more, probably.