Type-safe C-killer Delphi turns 30

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/delphi_turns_30/

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Deebster@programming.dev · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.

I'd never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

mox@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y

I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

In case you want to look at a working Lazarus project, PeaZip uses it.

https://peazip.github.io/

KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Same! My comp Sci class in high school started us off with Turbo Pascal and Delphi. You wouldn’t get C/C++ and Java exposure until your second year. I haven’t ever considered going back and re-exploring it though. Perhaps I should locate my old floppy disks with the original assignments on them and review just how awful my code was just a little over a decade ago.

a4ng3l@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Fuck that shit and all the memories of it during my graduate. To some extent I dreaded this more than assembler and cobol.