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Totally agree on Lazarus: it inherited the "Delphi way" of doing thins, and is a joy to use. For those who never used it, it produces native compiled high performance code (on par with C) and the IDE itself can run for example also on ARM boards, no cross compiling needed. Still dreaming to see it support other languages, but I guess adapting all libraries to them would be a nightmare of a task for a Open Source and Free as in beer project.