Oh yeah, I remember this thing, this is what whole generation of CIS engineers started with. I've solved countless LC style tasks with it and never touched a class or a procedure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Honestly theres a lot I miss when I write Lazarus apps.
But they pivoted themselves out of that real fast...