Free Pascal & Lazarus

Comments recommend and discuss Free Pascal compiler and Lazarus IDE as viable modern alternatives to legacy Pascal tools like Turbo Pascal and Delphi, often suggesting them for cross-platform GUI development.

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doublerabbit • Jul 16, 2025 • View on HN

Pascal is alive too with Lazarus and FPC.

mika9090 • Apr 14, 2020 • View on HN

Try Pascal (free pascal or Delphi)

unnouinceput • Sep 11, 2023 • View on HN

I guess you never heard about Free pascal/Lazarus then.

analognoise • Oct 21, 2021 • View on HN

Lazarus/FreePascal tech slaps. It will blow your mind.

pdntspa • Sep 11, 2023 • View on HN

You might want to check out Lazarus if you can stomach Pascal

bigpeopleareold • Oct 30, 2025 • View on HN

Free Pascal with better tooling?

pdntspa • Sep 11, 2023 • View on HN

Check out Lazarus and FreePascal

404mm • Mar 24, 2024 • View on HN

It’s written in Pascal.. Why not something like Rust or at least C++?

pjmlp • Apr 23, 2012 • View on HN

As far as I know they are using FreePascal as well.

AceJohnny2 • Apr 11, 2020 • View on HN

Counterpoint: what are some things that Turbo Pascal lacked that we take for granted in a modern language environment?