PascalABC.net
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2 days ago
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kbelder
5 hours ago
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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 programming environment.
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chungy
5 hours ago
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Lazarus is mature: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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ctmnt
4 hours ago
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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.
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giancarlostoro
2 hours ago
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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.
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chungy
2 hours ago
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What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?
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lelanthran
37 minutes ago
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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 about I miss when I write lazarus apps.

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HexDecOctBin
4 hours ago
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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.
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codr7
4 hours ago
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Delphi had a good thing going for a while, a ton of potential.

But they pivoted themselves out of that real fast...

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giancarlostoro
3 hours ago
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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.
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