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Kind of trapped in a large project. Started in Turbo Pascal in 1994, ported to Delphi, and we're still working on it. Maybe will finally have to port it to something else if WASM support is not added soon. I like the language because it's readable, yet as powerful and close to the metal as C++. Not so happy with the pricing model though.

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... Use Lazarus and Free Pascal. The are compatible with Delphi and both free and open source.

Lazarus is a very powerful IDE that allows you to build your app for the console, GTK or QT you choose.

And Free Pascal is a blazingly fast compiler, that generates high performance native code for multiple cpus, including Intel and ARM cpus 32bit and 64 bit, and for multiple operating systems (Linux, Mac Os, windows, etc).

It's pretty amazing to see your code compiling and your binaries executing, in such different cpus and operating systems, almost effortlessly.

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