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1. 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 13:37:40 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
   gave a coworker a turbo pascal book and a link to freepascal.org. doing my part in spreading the word of less soydev languages
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 15:09:17 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • arcanicanis
     the main criticism I see is that FPC makes slower binaries than say, Delphi does.
     
     and yes Delphi lets you make console applications but it's not Linux native (you do dev on Windows and cross compile unfortunately).
     https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Console_Applications
   • arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 15:09:24 JST arcanicanis

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     Neat, even RISC-V support. Also some XML and HTML parsers, socket APIs and such, so it seems fairly "batteries included" from first glance.