Pascal is shifting again. Blaise Pascal rewrite on one side, Unleashed on the other — the ecosystem is opening up in new way... Lots to unpack. #Pascal#FreePascal#FPC#Unleashed
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Željan Rikalo will be giving a technical session at the International Pascal Congress 2026 entitled "OpenSSL in Free Pascal and Lazarus: From OpenSSL 1.1.1 to 3.x – Compatibility, Migration, and Real-World Pitfalls". The International Pascal Congress 2026 will take place from 22 to 26 June in Salamanca (Spain). Don’t miss it! #Pascal#ObjectPascal#FreePascal#Lazarus
This is one of the most interesting LLM-isms I've seen. I asked MiMo to create a zmachine in freepascal and as part of that it wrote a complete one in python to help it debug the freepascal version.
If I didn’t have a day job I’d build a new vcl style framework that ran on top of freepascal . One that was multi platform . Claude is probably pretty close to being able to do this .
Object pascal has a lot of nice features that make it the best choice for desktop development
I've been having a lot of fun with Claude Code and Opus 4.6. Here's one for @BjornstadOttar - a port of SOLVER from the 1990s to run using FreePascal. Want to run ecological models from Nisbet and Gurney? Enjoy! github.com/sdwfrost/solver-f…
I will have to retract my fairly positive opinion about Claude and agentic code tools in general.
While they do work fairly competently with the DRL/JHC mixed FreePascal/Lua codebase, against the much larger C /Lua codebase of Jupiter Hell they're proving barely worthwhile...
My two hard side projects in Claude Code right now are:
1. Complete overhaul of a dead PoW chain to a new architecture, attempting to enable useful PoW.
2. Converting an old BBS "Door" game from freepascal to Golang. Massive project to get 1:1 faithful port.
What are you working on this weekend?
I had Claude Code spend countless sessions gradually writing a FreePascal to Go transpiler so I could attempt to port an old BBS Door game to more modern architecture.
It, uh, seems to have worked.
I'll keep you updated as I test the results.
I've been thinking. When my current project is over, I may switch to Delphi/FreePascal. I guess COBOL could be a candidate. Modern frameworks try to do too much.