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What's the state of the art in Pascal coding in 2023? Are we still using FreePascal to write win32 apps or what?
by phendrenad2 4y ago
What's the state of the art in Pascal coding in 2023? Are we still using FreePascal to write win32 apps or what?
- livrem 4y agoFreePascal does win64 and pretty much every other platform from the last 30-40 years as well. I think you can still use it for win32 and win16 if you want to. I used it to cross-compile to 16-bit DOS and 32-bit DOS, and also various 32-bit and 64-bit ARM targets as well as 64-bit intel Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Seems to work everywhere.
- pjmlp 4y agoDelphi still exists and in Germany we have an yearly conference, and occasional Delphi articles pop up on Software Entwickler and .NET magazines.
- anta40 4y agoAt least for writing cross platform desktop apps, I think nothing beats Lazarus/FPC. One codebase that works on Windows, Linux, macOS. And not tied to JVM/Electron etc. There are some web frameworks in Pascal like Fano or Brooke. Never personally use it. Want to write Android apps? There's LAMW. No iOS equivalent in FOSS world, AFAIK. Probably you want to use Delphi for this purpose. Conclusion: still OK, overall. Considering those implementations are not backup up by giant companies like Google, MS, etc.