Lazarus IDE

“Lazarus (FreePascal IDE / Delphi clone) gets it right. You get performance, low resource usage, portability and a good UI”

“making certain it does not interfere with user's existing setups by restricting configuration settings to your chosen install folder”

“The killer app with Lazarus is it's cross platform GUI capabilities.”

“Free Pascal and Lazarus exist as a happy compromise between those things and native code integration”

“Last time I tried Lazarus, the strangest feature that FPC was missing”

“there is just something special about older versions of Delphi and now Lazarus that makes it so much easier to write desktop software than most other frameworks”

“Pascal/Lazarus/Delphi strike such a nice balance of responsiveness in the development lifecycle”

“I have also created additional IDE extensions to improve the experience of working with Lazarus packages.”

“Lazarus and the Free Pascal compiler are open source, and amazing replacements.”

“If you're not in the mood to rent your compiler, you can also try Lazarus.”

“You can absolutely do this with Lazarus, which picked up where Delphi left off.”

“Lazarus is a nice way to make native GUIs on each platform.”

“My Qt and Lazarus apps aren't laggy at all, and are far more snappy and responsive”

“Someone like me, OTOH, can produce small and tight software because I programmed in Delphi (now Lazarus)”

“Literally 5 seconds on Google would find the FreePascal Compiler and Lazarus.”

“very dated and doesn't look and feel quite as polished, there's been a lot of modern IDE advancements and none of them have made their way to Lazarus”

“Lazarus 3.x was a bit quirky for my tastes, but 4.x has been very good.”

“I wish Lazarus had support for C++ as well.”

“it is very good for getting full-native (including native UI toolkit) cross-platform desktop apps”

“that is the sort of Feedback loop that I miss in python and go GUI builders that I've used previously, and why I keep coming back to Lazarus”

“Members went out to demonstrate and constructed me alternatives when I was new to Pascal.”

“bringing the rest of the capabilities of Delhi to the Free Pascal compiler”

“Lazarus does fill that gap but somehow doesn't quite have the same feeling as the original Delphi.”

“Genuinely enjoy it and find it a much more pleasant experience than C.”

“Lazarus serializes the object properties into a simple and readable text format that follows the class declarations themselves”

“it is fully open source. No restrictions but the ones of the software itself.”

“the easiest way to make a lean and fast native Windows app without paying for tooling”

“with Lazarus/Free Pascal, but forget about current projects downloading 20000 dependencies”

“Especially when FreePascal allows you to make UIs with Lazarus for free.”

“Not strong contenders against something derived from old Delphi like Lazarus.”

“Lazarus is not exactly pinnacle of bug free apps”

“Fast compile times, native cross-platform support, and small statically-linked binaries”

“Man, you never used Delphi or Lazarus then. That was comfortable and easy.”

“Also Lazarus had compiler bugs on arm32 which prevented us from using it in professional barcode readers.”

“I like Lazarus but its also stuck in time it feels like.”

“If you're used to contemporary development environments, Lazarus feels like a clunky throwback.”

“If you build an app with Lazarus and LCL, you CAN have it work cross-platform.”

“both have a much better history of preserving backwards compatibility than most open source projects backed by larger companies”

“It's a bit outdated these days, e.g. missing LSP support.”

“Sure there is FreePascal and Lazarus, sadly it doesn't get enough love.”