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Free Pascal is the language and Lazarus is the IDE. In the case of Delphi, Object Pascal is the language and Delphi is the IDE.

So it is best to see Free Pascal & Lazarus as the free and open source alternative to Object Pascal & Delphi respectively.

Of course, now the term Object Pascal is not used at all. Delphi is used to refer to both the language and the IDE now.

About Free Pascal, it is largely compatible with Delphi/Object Pascal but there are minor differences. https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_For_Delphi_Users

Here is a write up on the advantages of Free Pascal: https://www.freepascal.org/advantage.var

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Lammy5y ago· 2 in thread

Thank you! That makes much more sense.

pkphilipOP5y ago

You are welcome! Please do give it a shot.

I am not associated with the Lazarus project at all but I did develop in Delphi over 22 years ago and I still do some development using Lazarus. I hope to do some tutorial videos on this to help those new to the environment.

Lammy5y ago

Were you a 68k-era Mac dev, by chance? That's my biggest mental association with "Object Pascal". I was only old enough to be a beginner-level user in those days and never got to ('had to'?) program anything on them, but it always seemed like it would be fun to revisit and see that Other Side of my childhood System 7 :)

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