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C has its root buried deep in programming world. A lot of things were written in C, big things, that people don't want to touch but they have to use. It's no longer as popular as, …

Yep, that's why I always recommend Lazarus instead of cracking Delphi illegally.

Too wonderful. I was shocked when I see common filesystem drivers (including NTFS!), completely written in Pascal. The author must be a programming God.

Lazarus and/or Free Pascal? Android is looking good, though maybe not really a pleasing experience for those with less experience. It even has multiple approaches. iOS is still dar…

No other RAD claiming IDE has the same RAD capabilities as Lazarus or Delphi (or C++ builder), including QT Creator. Live database connection and manipulation while designing your …

Smaller and simpler (written in old Delphi, with some 3rd party packages, so Windows only), nothing else I guess. Lazarus is far superior in every other aspects.

As MySQL develops, the bindings are updated as well, but most people will have to wait for stable release. If you use trunk, though, you can enjoy it right away because MySQL bindi…

Yes it is, finally :) I like the ability to extract build information from .lpi, despite still needs a lot of work (macros won't work), already lifts the burden to write the unnece…

It's what Pascal should have become IMHO. Base syntax: case-insensitive Oberon. Extensions: Object Pascal features. Now that's heaven. If only we don't need to maintain backward co…

It's been 15 years since Lazarus (and thus LCL) was born and the following changes has happened: - GTK1 interface is obsolete (was mainstream), GTK2 is mainstream, GTK3 is on the w…

That's what the community has been missing all these years. Writing documentations are boring activity, so contributors tend to give only demos, examples and sometimes unit tests. …

It's already done. Many people in Pascal community works with Arduino, Pi, Odroid, etc. Ranging from simple LED toggling to complex robotics.

I assure you, it can. Be it through API, custom socket protocol, bindings, no problem. When one doesn't exist yet, creating yourself is not a big deal.

I agree with your first 2 sentences, which Modern Pascal is just as capable, if not more, than Java. Lazarus is an example of such complex project, it has near 5 MLoC (without exte…

Good to know that many things are native Pascal nowadays, even some great Pascal people choose to either write from scratch or native porting instead of writing wrappers. Personall…

just a single reference to open your eyes: https://ultibo.org/ web servers are just network programming, it's even easier. FPC even ships a HTTP server library with examples in onl…

I never need a closure. You need a shift in thinking, closures are much heavier than ordinary procedures, at least in Golang (yes, this is a real world experience). Delphi has clos…

I do. I don't use CGI, though. As I find the embedded web server is more reliable. However, changing between CGI, FastCGI amd embedded server is a matter of changing a single uses …

Nope, it will require porting. Only the pure Pascal part is portable. The Assembly and MacApp parts are not, and MacApp no longer exists in OS X AFAIK.

Surely you have no idea what you're talking about. Pascal is modern, perhaps you are the one that's not up to date. Java? Err.. assuming everybody has a lot of RAM, maybe. JavaScri…