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by TedDallas 1578 days ago
If you liked Delphi then Lazarus is a great open source alternative for WYSIWYG Linux and Windows forms based application programming.

Recently I used it to create a little SQL editor with syntax highlighting for Maria DB. It only took a few hours which was mostly due to me trying to remember my Pascal syntax.

Lazarus also has a nice online package manager with a 1.5 zillion components available.

Object Pascal can feel antiquated. But Free Pascal remains fast, stable, and reasonably feature rich without much syntax bloat over the years.