[lonk]

Cross platform, visual gui builder, RAD ide: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[Tozen]

Almost hilarious how people overlook Object Pascal and its IDEs, yet it's what many languages wish they had or want to be like.

[mhd]

FreePascal/Lazarus seem to aim mostly for the people already using its predecessors. I see little to no "evangelism". Even new niche languages like Nim or V seem to have more "momentum".

Clearly the timeline we deserve.

[pjmlp]

Or companies like Microsoft finally come out with a C++ Builder alternative (C++/CX), and a couple of WinDevs starts a mutiny, brings back the C++ developers experience 20 years back to their beloved VC++ 6.0 COM development tooling, paying customers be dammed.

[thriftwy]

Pascal is an really uncomfortable language to be writing new code in 2022. In 2005 it was arguably better than most flavors of C++ but now it belongs to a museum.