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mORMot2
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Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)
This article reads more like an ad for mORMot 2 than Pascal. I've been out of the Pascal game for a few years, so I had to look up mORMot 2.[0] Apparently Synopse are the maintainers of it.
The article basically compare their CSV/JSON serialising library to Go's standard CSV/JSON libraries. Looking at the Go code, it's pretty clear why it has memory issues, it reads all the lines into a single object (well, `[][]string`) immediately, rather than reading line for line (which takes advantage of the stream).
I am not sure how this is remarkable and impressive for Pascal. They talk about how you don't need to use the `try..finally..Free` routine all the time, but that's only if the object in question is an interface. Interfaces are somehow handled by a reference counter in Object Pascal, so you need to know how to operate on objects vs interfaces, because they act very different. Pascal is full of these quirks.
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Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
Lazarus is great! While FPC and Lazarus make it very easy and productive to make cross-platform GUI software, people should know that mORMot (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2) makes it very easy to develop cross-platform web apps.
mORMot has been around for over a decade, the feature-set is very rich and mature, and the development and user forums are also very active - you can easily confirm that by checking the github repo's commit logs and visiting their forum.
mORMot's ORM is quite interesting - it's based on SQLite and supports all other mainstream databases through SQLite's virtual table mechanism.
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Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (2013)
The most powerful and stable web framework is mORMot, it supports both FPC and Delphi. Here is its version 2 in development: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2
I use Delphi all the time, IMHO, it's the best tool for Windows desktop app development - concise language, blazing fast compile time, easy UI design, flexible UI framework, all-in-one IDE, and so on. It's joy to me :)
And here is my new desktop software written in Delphi: https://docxmanager.com/
castle-engine
- Castle Engine – free and OS, x-platform, 2D/3D game engine using modern Pascal
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Is Fortran "A Dead Language"?
The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only started playing around with FreePascal a bit last year after not having used Pascal at all for some 25 years.
- Unity: We Have Heard You
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Web target – progress and plans
Trung Le (Kagamma) has been doing lots of work with CGE + FPC WebAssembly. His fork contains a branch wasm32-wasi-port with lots of active work. I absolutely expect that we’ll merge it to CGE webassm\platformer\test at some point, and then to master branch :)
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Freepascal Game Development?
And I've just finished core (Achievements only for now) of SteamWorks integration in Pascal for Castle Game Engine. It doesn't use C# bridge for SteamWorks as Terra Engine did (the code you most likely worked with) https://github.com/Relfos/steamworks_wrappers, but rather a direct access to DLL functions which don't work as reliably as one might hope. You can find my branch here https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/tree/castle-steam - it wasn't reviewed by the maintainer yet, so the API may change.
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A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language
Since this is a pretty general thread about Pascal, shout out to Castle Game Engine:
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Platformer game example in Castle Game Engine
Source code: https://github.com/castle-engine/castle-engine/tree/master/examples/platformer
You can also download it together with the Engine: https://castle-engine.io/
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I found this really nice tool to help setup android dev for lazarus!
Wiki explaining what is in the docker image
What are some alternatives?
python4delphi - Free components that wrap up Python into Delphi and Lazarus (FPC)
CEF4Delphi - CEF4Delphi is an open source project to embed Chromium-based browsers in applications made with Delphi or Lazarus/FPC for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
pasvulkan - Vulkan header generator, OOP-style API wrapper, framework and prospective Vulkan-based game engine for Object Pascal
Advent_of_Code_in_Pascal - My solutions to the Advent of Code, in Free Pascal
Axes-Armour-Ale - A fantasy, ASCII dungeon crawler for Windows, Linux & OSX
travesty - Parody text generator
FMD2
LAMWManager-linux - LAMW Manager is a command line tool,like APT, to automate the installation, configuration and upgrade the framework LAMW - Lazarus Android Module Wizard
Delphi-FFMPEG - FFmpeg Delphi Headers
horse - Fast, opinionated, minimalist web framework for Delphi