Just the text editor component feels alien. And how can a codebase be 'source hidden' when it is available as a zip? I'm not sure what you mean with passing around zipped codebases, there are a ton of projects on GitHub.
#Free pascal button free
memory layout of RTTI data), anything you find online about Delphi also applies to Free Pascal (assuming of course that FPC has implemented the functionality, but since you refer to old veterans, i think everything those veterans and old discussions will be there).
![free pascal button free pascal button](https://s.getwinpcsoft.com/screenshots/3594/3594419_2.jpg)
In practice the differences are small enough that unless they refer to very internal stuff (e.g.
#Free pascal button code
Java and C# and also some C++ projects).įree Pascal has several language modes, one of them being Delphi which should be compatible enough to share and port code between the the two compilers (though the default mode in Lazarus is ObjFPC which is different and IMO the better mode). Verbose methods are a convention that you'll find in other languages too (e.g. The textmode IDE is largely a fallback for platforms that Lazarus doesn't support yet, pretty much everyone nowadays uses Lazarus which is very featureful (and very fast, IMO it puts pretty much other IDE to shame considering the functionality it has and its responsiveness and resource requirements).
![free pascal button free pascal button](https://imag.malavida.com/mvimg/main-m/free-pascal-2173-5.jpg)
While friendly, very dated and 'source hidden' in its ways. I also couldn't help but notice that the practices passing around zipped code bases/fragments is alive and well on there, mirroring the culture of small but closed source tools the Delphi ecosystem was famous for around 2000. Freepascal/Lazarus has a nice forum, and if you happen to be working in the same niches as other guests, that may be enough, but otherwise. Add to that a near invisibily in places like Github, and it does not make for a very attractive platform, compared to some others. Very verbose methods, and a problem that's true for the Freepascal dialect in general: small incompatibilities with Delphi Pascal, the dialect any old veteran will be used to and as such also much documentation/discussion online. The language itself feels also frozen in the early 00's, have a look at string handling for instance. As an IDE, Freepascal does seem dated, not including many details that we've gotten used to in recent decades.