Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

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ausare today at 8:35 AM
“ The Object Pascal ecosystem has two options: Embarcadero Delphi (proprietary, Windows-first) and Free Pascal…”

This part isn’t true, for many years now we’ve also had Oxygene - https://www.remobjects.com/elements/oxygene/ (also proprietary)

magicalhippo today at 7:11 AM
Looks interesting. As someone who's been using Pascal since Turbo Pascal 6, and use Delphi daily at work, I'm not sure I quite get the "COM-style interface GUID" objection. What exactly about it is complex, and how do you implement Supports() without it?
samuell today at 6:46 AM
It is a bit curious with the Mojo 1.0 beta coincidence, as Pascal was the other langauge with a highly readable and quite simple language combined with performant compiled code without GC.

What it lacked was a modern compiler and stack. There is FreePascal for sure, and Lazarus is impressive, but it for sure has its baggage.

HexDecOctBin today at 8:29 AM
Does this support declaring variables anywhere (as opposed to only in the beginning of a function)? That was my primary complaint when using Lazarus.
tomekw today at 6:53 AM
That’s so great! Thank you!

I wish something like this existed for Ada :)

dvh today at 7:28 AM
For me the only reason to use pascal is GUI apps but this doesn't have it.
superdisk today at 6:01 AM
Looks cool and does aim to address some of the annoying warts in Pascal. Especially the memory model.
zx8080 today at 10:24 AM
Sorry, I don't trust a compiler project that's done in 3 weeks (I've checked the repo commits history). Downvote this if you want.
lpcvoid today at 8:37 AM
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peter_d_sherman today at 4:45 AM
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