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Re: "[gemini link] I've been using Rust for about five years..."

In: s/programming

unlike other languages i mentioned (ada, modulas, oberon) pascal has a reasonably big community, many libraries.

lazarus is a great tool to create gui programs. same program can be compiled with gtk backend or qt backend, or for winfows or macos. or amigaos or morphos. or by using a toolkit written in pascal.

you dont need anymore to change your program because underlying ui toolkit gets deprecated: community updates the lcl (lazarus component library) backend, lets say it also supports not only gtk2 but gtk3, or newer version of qt, you just recompile your program and you get a version which works with newer or different ui toolkit.

🐙 norayr

Nov 13 · 2 days ago

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🐙 norayr · Nov 13 at 00:18:

wide list of supported platforms also mean you can write with fpc for an old palm pda or for game boy advance.

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[gemini link] I've been using Rust for about five years now, but I'm beginning to sour on it. I'm curious about perspectives here.

💬 jeang3nie · 24 comments · 4 likes · Aug 20 · 3 months ago