[loadzero]

With these restoration projects, I am usually looking to maximise code portability and minimise dependencies, which for me means C.

Sticking with Pascal would have been more authentic to the original source code, but I think that would have been more painful for me to deal with, and come with a lot of unknown unknowns.

I would likely also have been sacrificing my ability to port it onto the web and other interesting targets.

[pjmlp]

FreePascal WebAssembly is almost fully there and FPC already has plenty of supported targets, basically almost any CPU that matters.

However it is your project, your decisions.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Yeah, that makes sense, I mentioned freepascal specifically because it has pretty broad platform support (and can generate LLVM bitcode). But, maybe the cost of translating to C is worth it.