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A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be managers, not developers. But we like coding in pascal. It is still fun after decades!
But does it mean that you should not use pascal for any new project? Are the language/compilers/libraries outdated?
In the company I currently work for, we have young coders, just out-of-school or still-in-school, which joined the team and write great code!
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https://blog.synopse.info/?post/2022/11/26/Modern-Pascal-is-Still-in-the-Race

Pascal still fits a niche as being a lower level language like C or C++ but with nicer syntax. For making modern software it's going to be hard to use though since no major OS's support it directly.

Regards,
Ryan Joseph

Hairy Pixels wrote

Pascal still fits a niche as being a lower level language like C or C++ but with nicer syntax.

That is true.

For making modern software it's going to be hard to use though since no major OS's support it directly.

In what way does this make it "hard to use"? I certainly find it very easy to install and use under Windows, Linux and macOS.

Nikolay