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I don't have any burning desire to revisit Pascal, but it might be worth it for a nice RAD IDE that works on Windows and Linux. My brother loved his Delphi pro

• chungy 8mo ago
  Lazarus is mature: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
  • ctmnt 8mo ago
    Sadly, I feel like it’s too mature. If you’re used to contemporary development environments, Lazarus feels like a clunky throwback. I say that with lots of love and respect for the Lazarus team and community. Delphi’s even worse. Working in VSCode is... fine. For such a beautiful language, the ecosystem has really fallen behind the times.
  • HexDecOctBin 8mo ago
    I wish FreePascal would allow declaring variables anywhere and loop local variables. I just can't program like C89 anymore and without these two basic quality-of-life features, Pascal simply feels stuck in history.
  • giancarlostoro 8mo ago
    I like Lazarus but its also stuck in time it feels like. Theres so many improvements and modernizations they could have implemented into Lazarus by now.
    • chungy 8mo ago
      What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?
      • lelanthran 8mo ago
        Lsp. Seamless support for external editor/changed files so I can use vim without losing changes. Component for markdown rendering. Theme support so apps can switch between light and dark themes at runtime. Honestly theres a lot I miss when I write Lazarus apps.
        • vintagedave 8mo ago
          Try Oxygene. Files are always up to date (you don't even save, if you type, it'll end up on disk, same in reverse if you save with another editor.) Code completion works. IDE supports themes. Most importantly the language is _far_ more modern than Lazarus / FPC. It can import Lazarus (and Delphi) projects, but does not have a form designer built in.
          • zeroc8 8mo ago
            and it costs 749 bucks....
            • vintagedave 8mo ago
              You're right re commercial. If it's personal use, twenty bucks a month.
          • lelanthran 8mo ago
            I think this response is more than a little unhelpful I wanted >> Theme support so apps can switch between light and dark themes at runtime. You present > IDE supports themes. You don't see the difference? I want to produce apps that decides, at runtime, which theme to use. I also don't know if I'd consider it a Lazarus option if a) It's a different language, not Delphi and b) It has no RAD tools. After all, if I want niche languages with poor support for RAD, I'm spoilt for choice. What I want is for Lazarus to be updated with some modern features, not replace a well-known RAD tool with a niche, expensive, proprietary and little-known language.
            • vintagedave 8mo ago
• codr7 8mo ago
  Delphi had a good thing going for a while, a ton of potential. But they pivoted themselves out of that real fast...
• giancarlostoro 8mo ago
  Now that you dont have to hand write it and can let AI translate your pesudocode into Pascal… well lets just say it could be less painful.
  • sixothree 8mo ago
    Not sure about writing code, but I sure was recently able to interrogate a code base extensively using Claude Code with Serena connected to Lazarus.