I'd love to hear a bit about your experiences with Lazarus. A few years ago I tried playing around with it on macOS, but all I remember is that I wasn't able t

I'd love to hear a bit about your experiences with Lazarus. A few years ago I tried playing around with it on macOS, but all I remember is that I wasn't able to get things up and running because I kept encountering problems. Maybe I was doing something wrong or I didn't invest enough time in setting up and learning how to properly use the tool. I think I tried using Homebrew to install everything during my previous attempt, but since I'm not seeing any mention of this option as part of their macOS installation instructions [0] then I'm guessing that might've been the source of my problems. Would you still recommend learning Lazarus and FreePascal in 2020? I've mostly done web development, but I'm also interested in traditional native application development. My hypothesis is that learning to use some of these older tools or systems can teach you a lot of lessons which carry over across languages and platforms. For example: learning a bit of Qt helped me refine my internal models for various UI widgets. I want to learn to write faster and higher quality applications than our current highly-frustrating standard. [0] https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_macOS https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_ma...