| Technically the only reason FPC's textmode IDE is "retro" is because everyone is using Lazarus instead :-P so it doesn't get much development. It is useful when you want a more lightweight FPC development environment or to develop in a platform without Lazarus support yet (i think Haiku was like that though from a quick search it looks like Lazarus can run on Haiku now with the Qt backend[0]). There are a bunch of programs using Lazarus though, e.g. AFAIK the 64bit version of Total Commander is made using it. Personally i'm making a bunch of stuff using it, like a 3D game engine[1] (well, actually more than one[2][3], but that is retro :-P), various utilities (e.g. some time ago i wrote a utility to repeat a texture on a spline so i can use it to draw patterns on textures[4]) and experiments (e.g. a lightmapping experiment[5] i wrote last year). Though as i like retro stuff, some of my projects are of that nature (e.g. aside from the second engine mentioned above, i wrote a quick and dirty Quake map editor[6] and a dungeon/map editor[7] for a homebrew game i was making for the OG Xbox using the opensource nxdk SDK - the game was made in C though, only the tools are in Free Pascal and Lazarus). EDIT: forgot to mention, in a previous gamedev job i used Lazarus to write a tool for extracting savegame data for an external QA company, a tool that analyzed resource/asset usage for the engine and could point out exactly where it was loaded with full backtrace (i used Lazarus' "SynEdit" control to show the C++ source code for that with syntax highlighting and move to the exact line) and a tool that analyzed memory use and found untraced memory (the engine had its own memory allocator but not all memory went through that, especially from some middleware, so i wrote a tool that hooked VirtualAlloc and traced its callers - a hacky solution but worked :-P). [0] https://i.imgur.com/Rl8ISmQ.png [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ1-r9aE0QA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5IAIhWcco0 [3] https://i.imgur.com/3f64T9M.png [4] https://i.imgur.com/hfXWYAe.png [5] https://i.imgur.com/ahO15LO.png [6] https://i.imgur.com/7MSH98p.png [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mf8ujCu5g |
