I bought Delphi ages ago, but never got very far with it, which I regret.I'd love to be able to take it up again, and this document looks very promising for that, esp. paired with:https://wiki.freepascal.org/pas2jswhich I now see is supported in Lazarus.If someone has an example graphical project which compiles to an HTML page w/ JavaScript using the above, I'd love to see it and a detailed set of build instructions and notes on installing the needed toolchain and deployment. (as a note, I'm currently working in flet.dev using Python which allowed me to get a small prototype up-and-running, but I'm still looking into self-hosting and doing something more complex)

This takes me back, my first adventure in programming was as a 12 year old creating a Pong clone using Turbo Pascal on DOS. It came in handy later as a 20 year old when I was doing freelance as a Delphi dev. Amazing to see Pascal on HN.

Photoshop 1.0 was written mostly in Object Pascal with some 68000 assembly language; source code is available:https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code...

I used to have object pascal as my main language, and it has a lot in its favour. But when I go back to it I find two things drag it down.Pre definition of variables. I would like to be able to define variables on first assignment and scoped to the begin/end in which that happens, I don't think there is a good remaining argument to keep them above the statements.The namespace is cluttered with legacy usage, making the many years of advancement require odd. Combinations of prefixes.I still think there is a scope for a light fork that changes the name to distinguish it and starts the RTL afresh using the decades of hindsight and improvements.

When I was first learning to program, I started using the free Borland Turbo C++ compiler [1]. I had managed to get subscribed to their newsletter that seemed very insistent that Delphi was going to be the future for desktop software. Awhile later, I found out that "Spybot – Search & Destroy" was written in Delphi, so I figured it might be fun to play with.So play with it I did. I hadn't used Visual Basic at the time, so the entire idea of "drag and drop" GUIs was kind of amazing, and I even kind of ended up liking the language.I wasn't able to get any kind of OpenGL stuff working with it, so I ended up going back to C and I really haven't touched the language since, but I kind of feel like I should at some point just to finish off that loose thread in my education.[1] I actually don't remember if that was proper freeware or if I had gotten it cough unofficially free...

Ah, Object Pascal! Delphi was my first real IDE, felt so productive back then. Good to see it getting aern modern look for new devs.

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