>To add insult to injury, in Delphi custom components were system-wide, not project scoped and required elaborate installation/registration to show up in the ID

>To add insult to injury, in Delphi custom components were system-wide, not project scoped and required elaborate installation/registration to show up in the IDE. It is even worse in Lazarus To install a component, you have to recompile all of Lazarus >Also pascal is insanely verbose, i.e. simple list operations (like building list of options for selecbox) span multiple lines of code. Is one line per element verbose? It is just a function call. You could write an array ['a', 'b', 'c'] like that and iterate over it