Blaise Pascal compiler
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A quick, self-hosting Pascal compiler that drops old Pascal cruft and targets QBE. Caveat: it is young and lacks the with statement.
A quick, self-hosting Pascal compiler that drops old Pascal cruft and targets QBE. Caveat: it is young and lacks the with statement.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 79%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Pascal without legacy baggage
“Blaise could be a neat Pascal compiler with a great deal of old cruft cleaned out and is quite quick.”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “QBE – Compiler Back end: Version 1.3” “does aim to address some of the annoying warts in Pascal”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE” “All of the good parts of Pascal and non of the baggage”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE” - Comment from 17 May 2026 in “Blaise v0.7.0 (alpha) – Independent of Free Pascal compiler”
Pure Pascal, consistent design
“I'm actually really happy to see a fresh "just Pascal", and one that is aiming for a slim bootstrap at that.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE” “here at least Blaise is consistent. It’s not mixing models.”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE” Promising early project
“So, this project seems to start on good grounds!”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE” “Congratulations on your projects, Graeme!”
Comment from 12 May 2026 in “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCC | 138 | 123 | 53% | 12 | 15 yrs9 owners | — |
| Clang | 74 | 50 | 60% | 12 | — | — |
| Free Pascal compiler | 38 | 7 | 84% | 11 | — | Approved |
| GraalVM Native Image | 31 | 9 | 78% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Blaise Pascal compilerThis page | 11 | 3 | 79% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I've built a solution to this.”
“Blaise could be a neat Pascal compiler with a great deal of old cruft cleaned out and is quite quick.”
“All of the good parts of Pascal and non of the baggage”
“Blaise is Pascal for 2026+ without legacy baggage.”
“Congratulations on your projects, Graeme!”
“But no with statement. :(”
“I'm actually really happy to see a fresh "just Pascal", and one that is aiming for a slim bootstrap at that.”
“So, this project seems to start on good grounds!”
“I don't trust a compiler project that's done in 3 weeks”
“here at least Blaise is consistent. It’s not mixing models.”
“does aim to address some of the annoying warts in Pascal”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.