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by 72deluxe 4309 days ago
Does anyone use Lazarus and Free Pascal for anything? I only tinkered with Delphi when it used to come on PC Plus cover CDs back in the day, before using C++ Builder at work. I know that C++ Builder lost significant (!) market share after the name changes to Inprise and being bought by Embercarado, although those things weren't necessarily the real reasons for this market share loss.

I was pleasantly surprised to come across Lazarus and Free Pascal and thought it might be a way for my brother to do some programming, instead of C++ (which I use, but he doesn't know).
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marktangotango 4308 days ago
I studied TP many years ago, and have fond memories of it. I looked into using Free Pascal for a system level project involving networking, threading, and concurrency (here I mean things like synchronized collections). In particular the threading and concurrency libraries seemed to be limited, and not as 'nice' as alternatives in other languages (boost, or java concurrent utils). Also the language is sufficiently complex that I decided I may as well use c or c++.
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72deluxe 4301 days ago
I thought that Lazarus looked easy enough to get my brother started with programming, due to the easy nature of "controls" that you drag + drop from the palette, but such a hope hasn't materialised yet. Good to know someone else looked into it though.

I note that on Mac it is still built using Carbon; not sure if Cocoa is in the works?

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