[kbelder]

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.

[chungy]

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

[ctmnt]

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.

[giancarlostoro]

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.

[HexDecOctBin]

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.

[giancarlostoro]

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]

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.

[codr7]

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

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