> The FPC textmode "Turbo Vision" like ide is fine Fun fact, recently an attempt to add unicode support to Free Vision (and related units) was submitted to the

> The FPC textmode "Turbo Vision" like ide is fine Fun fact, recently an attempt to add unicode support to Free Vision (and related units) was submitted to the repository and while that worked, it broke a bunch of things and introduced extra jank (and a massive performance regression, even if you are not using the unicode-aware units) to it (including the textmode IDE, which -e.g.- crashes the second time you try to build something). But this is in the development version from the repository and there are no plans currently to make a new release soon, so chances are by the time a new release is made this will be fixed. > I don't see how someone used to Delphi or VB can tolerate building anything with Lazarus. The polish isn't there. Personally i find Lazarus much more polished than Visual Basic ever was.