2/16/2026 at 11:50:14 PM
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.by kbelder
2/16/2026 at 11:50:58 PM
Lazarus is mature: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/by chungy
2/17/2026 at 2:11:36 AM
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.by giancarlostoro
2/17/2026 at 2:20:26 AM
What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?by chungy
2/17/2026 at 12:24:09 AM
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.by ctmnt
2/17/2026 at 12:52:33 AM
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.by HexDecOctBin
2/17/2026 at 2:08:09 AM
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.by giancarlostoro
2/17/2026 at 12:34:37 AM
Delphi had a good thing going for a while, a ton of potential.But they pivoted themselves out of that real fast...
by codr7