{"id":5158,"date":"2023-12-22T18:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2023-12-22T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:28:35","slug":"lazarus-3-0-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5158","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus 3.0 Has Arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all you Pascal programmers among my readers: Lazarus 3.0 is out, and available for free download. <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.lazarus.freepascal.org\/index.php\/topic,65612.0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s the announcement<\/a>. I&#8217;ve already installed it on Win10 and will install it on Linux when time becomes available. (I&#8217;m still struggling to write the trademark Jeff Duntemann mayhem-filled action climax of my current WIP: <em>The Everything Machine, <\/em>the first full-length drumlins novel<em>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Delphi now costs over $1000. If I&#8217;m going to teach Pascal, I can&#8217;t use Delphi, love it though I may&#8211;and do. Lazarus is <a><\/a>pretty much Delphi&#8217;s peer, though it doesn&#8217;t\u2026<em>quite\u2026<\/em>have the third-party component aftermarket that Delphi has. Doesn&#8217;t matter. The fundamental principles of OOP and event-driven programming are the same.<\/p>\n<p>For newcomers: Lazarus is a superb IDE and drag-&#8216;n-drop GUI builder conceived as a Delphi competitor, though open-source and thus free of charge. It uses FreePascal 3.2.2 as its compiler. FreePascal understands Delphi&#8217;s additions to the Pascal programming language, and will also compile ancient Turbo Pascal programs. FreePascal is part of the Lazarus package and is installed when you install Lazarus. I have fragments of a book on Lazarus that I will return to at some point. But if you know Delphi, well, there\u2019s not a lot more to learn. You\u2019ll feel right at home.<\/p>\n<p>Go get it. I&#8217;ve done a lot of work in Lazarus. It&#8217;s mature. It works. It can create wonderful GUI apps. And it&#8217;s free. What more do you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you Pascal programmers among my readers: Lazarus 3.0 is out, and available for free download. Here\u2019s the announcement. I&#8217;ve already installed it on Win10 and will install it on Linux when time becomes available. (I&#8217;m still struggling to write the trademark Jeff Duntemann mayhem-filled action climax of my current WIP: The Everything Machine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[132,90,32],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-lazarus","tag-pascal","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}