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.

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.

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 wish FreePascal would allow declaring variables anywhere and loop local variables. I just can&#x27;t program like C89 anymore and without these two basic quality-of-life features, Pascal simply feels stuck in history.

Lazarus is mature: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazarus-ide.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazarus-ide.org&#x2F;</a>

Delphi had a good thing going for a while, a ton of potential.But they pivoted themselves out of that real fast...

I don&#x27;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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