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 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Lazarus is mature: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

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ctmnt 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?

	▲	lelanthran 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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HexDecOctBin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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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giancarlostoro 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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codr7 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Delphi had a good thing going for a while, a ton of potential.

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