[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.

[chungy]

What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?

[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.