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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by scardine on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @06:34PM (#14974381)
I wish porting projects from Delphi was easier. I was trying to make Python bindings for the AcBR library[1] and failed miserably.

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[1] http://acbr.sourceforge.net/drupal/

Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by Jack4E4B on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:12PM (#14974634)
There is another Pascal project out there called Oxygen by the folks at RemObjects. Not free, but I've heard good comments about it: http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/
Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by rgacote on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:06PM (#14975002)
I'd definitely use it more if I could port over the last few Delphi apps I have in production. My Delphi 7 is getting a bit old...

Aside from single-file executables, the biggest advantage to Lazarus (and also Delphi) [to me] is that all the libraries are also built in the language. No needing to bounce down to opaque DLLs just to display some GUI element.

Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by iajrz on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:44PM (#14975873)
Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by iajrz on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:43PM (#14975872)
A bit old is an understatement :^) why not update to more recent iterations of Delphi?