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Thank you, this really encourages me after all that discussion! :-)

Lazarus has a concept of packages for years. There is a newly created package manager to handle updates and dependencies as well: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Online_Package_Manager

But I don’t think that it is comparable to gem/npm or whatever yet...

Did you have a look at https://www.freepascal.org/docs.var and especially at the RTL https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/index.html and FCL https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/fcl/index.html documentation? I think the Free Pascal team has done a good job documenting nearly everything!

Currently I'm learning Forth and I really like that language! It's a brain twist and that's reason enough to have a look at :-)

It is easy to create bindings to the C-libraries you need, see http://wiki.freepascal.org/Creating_bindings_for_C_libraries.

But FreePascal has many native libraries for all kinds of stuff...