

My as-much-as-I-understand conclusions from your answers as to why someone might switch from Delphi to Lazarus: obviously it must be providing something that Delphi currently can't. (You will still have to invest your time to convert and learn. The Lazarus for Delphi Users section of the Lazarus Wiki says:īecause Lazarus is free is not a reason to switch, but does not penalize you in physical $'s for switching. I guess I thought you could leave everything in Delphi and just change IDEs. There seems to be some disagreement as to whether Lazarus can or cannot be used as an editor in developing Delphi code. The answers are leaving me with more questions than I had before. What are the advantages that Lazarus has over the Delphi IDE, and why would, or should a Delphi programmer switch to it?

for me at leastĭont get me wrong, it may just be me.I've been very happy with the Delphi IDE for programming in Delphi.īut I've heard about the Lazarus programming environment, and I've also heard that some Delphi programmers use it instead of the Delphi IDE.

And what about the Private isnt there a public and so much mors with VB is sort of a ‘when do i use this, when do i use that’ type of thing. What the heck does DIM mean? hard enough to remember what a integer is pascal use to only have a few types but I think that has grown a bit too.

Now if you come from programming or have been brought up in it then probably nothing seems easier than VB but I personally dont like having words in code that I cannot intuitively figure out since I do not code very much or very often I want easy to remember stuff. As a kid it was basic and then when i got back into programming a little I looked around and VB looked about as complicated as C or Java to me anyway, took a look at pascal and could “read” thru code and that was that! It has been a while since i did VB but i find pascal a lot more simple than VB. “Nice, clean, easy to read syntax is one of them” Vb-does your compiler give you meaningful error statements usually with a suggestion how to correct the error?
