>Also a mvp production exe will be 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed.

And a hello world Free Pascal EXE can be as small as 57KB:

$ dir fpc_hello.exe

07/26/2016 09:43 PM 57,402 fpc_hello.exe

Source and output:

$ type fpc_hello.pas

program hello_1;

{ uses ; }

    var i: integer;

BEGIN

        for i := 1 to 10 do

        begin

            writeln(i:4, ' Hello from Free Pascal');

        end;

END.

$ fpc_hello

   1 Hello from Free Pascal
   2 Hello from Free Pascal
   3 Hello from Free Pascal
   4 Hello from Free Pascal
   5 Hello from Free Pascal
   6 Hello from Free Pascal
   7 Hello from Free Pascal
   8 Hello from Free Pascal
   9 Hello from Free Pascal
  10 Hello from Free Pascal

I also checked the size of similar programs in C and D. C was about 22KB, IIRC. D was something more, don't exactly remember, but not a lot more, probably.

> 2.5 MB, no stdlib/.net/qt needed.

This is a pro of Pascal then :)

I was also looking for the pros of Pascal in contrast to what we've come to expect of languages while skimming the article.

Lazarus on ubuntu and windows is usable, i'm still struggling with macOS and there is legends and lore of ios/android support. It even seems to support qt, but I have not went there yet.

Something else to mention about lazarus is you can hot compile the ide too add in components, fix issues; While using lazarus. It takes a couple of minutes to recompile and there a fail safe cli method to restore. But rather amazing if you wonder how long it takes to compile visual studio professional or qt.

http://wiki.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Configure_Build_Lazar...

That's some interesting pros! Thanks man.