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>I think Delphi will die, but only because it costs a fortune today. If it had a resonable price, many people would continue to use it indeterminately.

http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

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Did you try it? I try it every year (I was a Delphi fan and full time Delphi programmer from Delph-1 to 6) but it is not very good. The Pascal compiler is brilliant and fast but Lazarus itself is unusable every time I try. It often begins by failing to build the basic form until I go through a bunch of steps to fix the install. That's going to put most people off as Delphi never had that issue; it was install-and-go. And after that it depends a bit on the position of the moon what happens. For instance, I just installed it again because of your post and when I press Run, I get http://imgur.com/a/blFNC . But even when you have it running, it keeps being highly unstable. Maybe it's just me but I doubt it.

Last time I tried it I did on a virtualbox VM and everything seemed to work.

I don't see anything in your link, by the way.

> I don't see anything in your link, by the way.

Ah sorry about that; I am in China and internet is very slow & often broken (HN is very fast though). Probably the image did not (fully) upload. It was an error telling the application crashed. Just the empty default form after pressing run.

I've been working with Lazarus on a daily basis for a while now (I work at a mostly Delphi company, but our server code runs on Linux so we write it in Lazarus). Can't say I have the same problems as you do. My host is a ubuntu machine, and I did install the latest version from their website, not from the package manager. This seemed to fix most of my issues with Lazarus.

I will retry again on Ubuntu. Maybe it's where I install from.

Installing Lazarus from the package managers in Linux really does suck even today, I wish they would fix it or just remove it from those repositories.

I Finally got the Linux version running on Mint by downloading and installing the files from their repository as recommended and it was a nice experience after that

Windows is another matter entirely, just download the setup, run it and go

Lazarus is a very active project, currently I rate it up there with delphi XE2 (the version I use currently) and it can only improve

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