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by squarefoot 2620 days ago
+1 for Nim. I'm dreaming some day to see a RAD where Lazarus generates Nim code with full LCL support; that would be a truly killer dev system for desktop apps. Lazarus is already a wonderful RAD, one can build native apps on a *PI board and run them directly on that target; Nim support would make it even greater.
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ScottFree 2617 days ago
> I'm dreaming some day to see a RAD where Lazarus generates Nim code with full LCL support

What does LCL stand for in this context?

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pjmlp 2620 days ago
Not sure what that would buy over Object Pascal and the plethora of libraries develop since Turbo Pascal/Apple Pascal days.
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squarefoot 2620 days ago
Admittedly not much on the technical side beyond new languages constructs etc, but the main benefit would be ending for good the wrong argument "Pascal is old therefore Lazarus sucks". Like 20 years ago I've written network code in Delphi that would send and receive binary data between different endianess and word size machines, so I had to align them and manage data down to bitfields in the Pascal equivalent of C unions, that is, the language offers enough bullets and rope to hang then shoot oneself in the foot just like C, but every time I talked with someone about Delphi and later Lazarus, it was just about a matter of minutes before the inevitable "yeah, but Pascal is old".
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pjmlp 2620 days ago
Here is an answer for them, all mainstream languages in use today are at least 20 years old.

And their beloved C is reaching 50 years old.

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