[spapas82]

I used it to compress a Lazarus (open source Delphi clone) executable. The results were great (executable size reduced by more than 50%, iirc from 2 mb to around 800 kB).

Offering a sub MB executable in the era of 100 MB electron apps is totally pioneer :)

[analognoise]

I've done the same thing! Shout out to Lazarus/FPC!!!

[squarefoot]

I've seen some posts about it over here recently and believe the critical users/developers mass to make it a successful dev system is achieved, however it still has to struggle to be taken into consideration in some contexts for not using a major language. If it allowed to build GUIs for C++ (QT/*TK and other builders are not even close to its usability level) it would probably become mainstream in a week.

[badsectoracula]

Sometimes i wonder how hard it would be to make some C++ Builder-like modifications to Clang (like Embarcadero did for newer C++ Builder versions) to allow it use Free Pascal objects directly for people who really want to avoid Pascal.

Of course to do it properly it'd need:

* A modified Clang (or other C++ compiler) that can use .ppu files with the necessary C++ language extensions for properties, callbacks, sets, enhanced RTTI, etc

* A C/C++ library that uses the Free Pascal RTL for all memory operations

* Lazarus' CodeTools to add C++ support for automatically creating missing event handler code (and removing unnecessary code), handling syntax completion, code completion for missing identifiers, property getters/setters and private fields, inherited fields, etc to the same standard as the Free Pascal code

* All the involved teams to agree to play nice with each other :-P

Also if such a thing would be done, judging from what most Lazarus and FPC devs do so far, it'd probably be done in a way that is as compatible with C++ Builder as possible.

TBH i don't really hold my breath, but who knows, weird stuff has happened before in both FPC and Lazarus :-P