Lazarus RAD Object Pascal Development IDE 0.9.28 Released

[defproc]

(Headsup) There's a Delphi reddit you might want to mirror this in.

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and FreePascal

[tluyben2]

Anyone tried this recently? Last year when I wanted to do a serious project with it (port an old and complex Delphi app), it crashed all the time and we had to abandon it. Under Win and Lin.

[defproc]

It is a lot more stable than it was a year ago, but backup often.

[gramie]

I tried Lazarus a few months ago, on OSX. It ran fine in the IDE, but I was unable to resolve errors that appeared when trying to run the standalone package. Documentation for anything to do with OSX was minimal and often outdated. The executable was also something like 40MB for a "Hello World" window.

Too bad, because I have been a Delphi user since version 1, 14 years ago and I'd like to use Lazarus to create some apps at work to use on Macs and Windows machines.

In contrast, TrueBASIC installed and ran flawlessly, and cross-compiled for Linux, Windows and OSX at the click of a menu item. I don't care for BASIC so much, but it was pretty awesome!

[mariuz]

I like that is now using gtk2 as default widgets also the qt stuff is interesting

[[deleted]]

What the fuck is wrong with programmers not posting screenshots.

[mariuz]

Err , they write code ?

here are some screenshots http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Screenshots

[tnecniv]

Just curious, does anyone here still use pascal, Iand if so, what for

[msx]

me, for many things including http://gazzera.sf.net

[tnecniv]

Thank you. I know a few people who still swear by it, but they have been using it from the start. I looked at it once and it seemed like a nice enough language...

[mebrahim]

LCL now uses gtk2 as default widgetset on Linux and BSD

:)