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Eric

Great post!
Free Pascal with Lazarus is pretty awesome :)

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Don Alfons • Edited

Thank's dude for leave a comment๐Ÿ™ !

Yeah.. I agree. They're very awesome! although I never use them again nowadays. But the strange thing is that in semester 1 we used FPC, then in semester 4 we learned to use Delphi 7. I think we should learn to use Lazarus at that time. What do you think? ๐Ÿค”

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Eric

Lazarus is total free and very capable.
I'm fairly sure that Pascal was originally made to teach programming. It forces the programmer to write very organized code. Free Pascal and Delphi are light years ahead of the original Pascal.
They build fast and lightweight applications.

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Don Alfons

Yeah.. indeed! But at that time I was new so I don't know about "They build fast and lightweight applications" than other tools and compilers. I found that a year ago after asking some old programmer's... and they say indeed! So I agree with that! BTW are you still using it?

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Eric

I do still use it. And enjoy using it.
But right now I'm focusing on web tech. I'm learning Svelte at the moment. It's really cool :)

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Don Alfons

Great! Well... I dont have a desktop GUI project so far so yeah.. maybe in the future :). BTW Same as me, I have web project. trying to move on from the web but I can't LoL! and I also using svelte now on my current client project. Yeah.. svelte is great!

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Eric

Cool!
I think there a number of advantages with web apps. And they can always be packaged as an Electron app.
Right now I'm building all the components/widgets in Svelte that I use in desktop applications.
I'm trying to theme them as what they look like in Linux Mint Cinnamon.

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Don Alfons

Agree!! BTW you can check out this => github.com/romgrk/web-toolkit, but this one is based on GTK's Adwaita theme. BTW good luck man!

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Eric

Thanks for the link! That's pretty much what I'm hoping to reproduce.
Good luck to you too!