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by tujv 1707 days ago
Related, Free Pascal has a text-mode IDE that's supported on most modern platforms.

https://www.freepascal.org

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It looks pretty much identical to the Turbo Pascal IDE for anyone that's feeling nostalgic and wants to write some yellow on dark blue code.

Even better - Free Pascal comes with Free Vision, which is mostly compatible with Turbo Vision. Turbo Vision was the toolkit Borland provided that would let you write your own text-mode GUI apps using the same widgets used to build the Turbo Pascal IDE.

And it was a quite good guide into the world of OOP programming.
I don't think the Free Pascal IDE is related to this

If you check the website demos and the "dos.h" source on GitHub, this is a library for making GUI apps whose UI has the appearance of being made with MS-DOS.

Unless I am misunderstanding the connection you're trying to make, which is also possible

It's related in the sense of both having an appeal to DOS nostalgia.