[optymizer]

We're probably in the same age group. I used to write simple games and graphics apps in Turbo Pascal in high school. Later on I used Delphi to write "business apps". To me, there isn't that much difference between Pascal and C in terms of language design.

I used to translate my Pascal code to C by replacing begin/end with curly braces, moving interface declarations to header files, replacing well named functions to cryptic-sounding strtok calls, etc. It was all so unnecessarily ugly in comparison.

C is my favorite language now, but the cleanliness of Pascal and the user friendliness of Delphi have stuck with me as reminders of how great a developer experience can be.

I've been using Android Studio for 10 years now and the experience doesn't hold a candle to Borland Delphi Architect from 20 years ago. We might have more advanced features these days, but it's a disconnected mess in comparison.

[masfoobar]

I find "modern" development to be bloat. By modern I refer to web development as smart device (ie Android, IOS, etc)

I will always have a soft spot for C but try to find the right replacemenet.

Looking at Odin at the moment which I do like. It is taking inspiration from a number of languages, include C and Pascal.