A guided intro to the Free Pascal language
Note for people who don&#x27;t know much about FreePascal. It is a full-featured and very fast compiler. The resulting program is a rival for the best output of C&#x2F;CPP compilers. It can be used in the style of simpler languages like Go and is almost as safe as Rust in a much faster manner. It has a great but old-looking IDE, Lazarus. It has been under active development for decades and is used for proper projects like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadroit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadroit.com&#x2F;</a>
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lazpaint.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lazpaint.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>As far as I know, there is no toolkit out there that lets you make fine looking applications for multiple platforms with proper speed.<p>The old Pascal you may know is not the new Pascal. The development of Pascal is mostly focused on ease of development while maintaining low-level programming and backward compatibility. It looks old on its face, but it is young at heart.<p>I recommend starting with Lazarus, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazarus-ide.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lazarus-ide.org</a>, a much lighter IDE compared to so-called light projects like VSCode, with many more features and components to play with.<p>Friendly word: don&#x27;t let the comments with outdated information make you miss a great and fun tool.