Why use Pascal? | Castle Game Engine

Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.

1y ago

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I used to do a fair bit of Delphi (pascal) coding and really liked it. I agree with readable, type-safe and oop, I'm not so sure about modern and truly cross-platform. My .02$.
- I am not a Pascal developer, I posted this because I feel like this is a good discussion topic. You don't need to have the latest and shiniest tech to build things. Sometimes old and proven is the way to go.
  
  While I agree, this might not be true for Delphi as it was heavily tied to Windows GUI elements (of the time), so far as I remember. I built quite a lot with it and loved it, but it probably hasn’t aged well. I have no idea what the last version of Delphi was and which windows generation it was designed for.
I honestly didn't know Pascal was still a thing. Last time I saw it, it was in my Dad's Borland Turbo Pascal book 30 years ago.