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It is hard to emphasize enough now how the original Turbo Pascal was such a breakthrough in development tools for the PC. RIP Borland - for a while there you we

It is hard to emphasize enough now how the original Turbo Pascal was such a breakthrough in development tools for the PC. RIP Borland - for a while there you were really the business.

pjmlp 6y ago
Having been there, I start to see some similarities the way JetBrains is attempting to go everywhere and replace OS vendors own IDEs and languages.
- W-Stool 6y ago
  YES! Me too, I'm developing in Go now and their Goland IDE really reminds me of some of the best of the old days @ Borland.
  - thu2111 6y ago
    Worth noting that JetBrains was founded in 2000, at a time when Borland Delphi was at its peak.
laumars 6y ago
RIP Pascal as well. Delphi wasn’t without it’s frustrations but Pascal was a far better language than people give it credit for these days.
- edwinyzh 6y ago
  Why? See how Free Pascal Compiler is alive: https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commits/master https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commits/master And its IDE: https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/commits/upstream https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/commits/upstream And we have new versions of Delphi very year, with a free Community edition: https://beta.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter https://beta.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter PS, I myself write all my software with Delphi, and this is the newest one: https://docxmanager.com https://docxmanager.com - something that turns MS Word into something like WordPress :)
  - laumars 6y ago
    I’m aware Pascal is still around (I have Lazarus installed and use it from time to time) but given how dominant Pascal once was, it’s fair to say the Pascal development community is a fraction of what it once was (even smaller if you compare it to the popularity of other languages right now).