It's nice to see this kind of Pascal community event. I write a program in Pascal for fun, for work or play, every few months. The one I use, fpc/Lazarus, is o

It's nice to see this kind of Pascal community event. I write a program in Pascal for fun, for work or play, every few months. The one I use, fpc/Lazarus, is one of those projects where people seem to use it for very significant work to a very high degree of personal satisfaction, but often to very little fanfare. Like let's say you built the world's fastest JSON viewer with it (already done, I think). Or you built a pretty amazing orthodox file manager with it (DC). Or a great little text editor? Cudatext. The author wrote a plugin at my casual mention of the topic of snippets that could run external commands, which I thought was awesome of them. Lazpaint is also pretty neat and I was able to make a pseudo-3D render with it. Very nice set of tools. Those are each a pretty big deal in their own ways. But these days there's another public-presence layer to development, where people want to find Mr. Lazarus chocolate bars on the shelf at their local store before they'll trust that it's worth their time, maybe. (I hear creator brands are pretty much everything right now?) Yet, the fact that it's around, well maintained, and used in very impressive projects, still means a lot to those who are interested in what it can do. And, I guess it still does some new stuff as needed. Pas2JS, webassembly, etc. https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/pas2js-demos/wasienv/canvas/ https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/pas2js-demos/wasienv/can... And that's just thinking about fpc/Laz... There's much more to the Pascal world than this.