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It is hard to emphasize enough now how the original Turbo Pascal was such a breakthrough in development tools for the PC. RIP Borland - for a while there you were really the business.

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RIP Pascal as well. Delphi wasn’t without it’s frustrations but Pascal was a far better language than people give it credit for these days.

Why? See how Free Pascal Compiler is alive: https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/commits/master And its IDE: https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/commits/upstream

And we have new versions of Delphi very year, with a free Community edition: https://beta.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

PS, I myself write all my software with Delphi, and this is the newest one: https://docxmanager.com - something that turns MS Word into something like WordPress :)

I’m aware Pascal is still around (I have Lazarus installed and use it from time to time) but given how dominant Pascal once was, it’s fair to say the Pascal development community is a fraction of what it once was (even smaller if you compare it to the popularity of other languages right now).

Having been there, I start to see some similarities the way JetBrains is attempting to go everywhere and replace OS vendors own IDEs and languages.

YES! Me too, I'm developing in Go now and their Goland IDE really reminds me of some of the best of the old days @ Borland.

Worth noting that JetBrains was founded in 2000, at a time when Borland Delphi was at its peak.

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