Comment by mikewarot
6 days ago
Lazarus is the open source equivalent to Delphi these days, and for the most part it's awesome. (The documentation, on the other hand... just isn't fit for purpose)
I've been using Visual Studio Code and Github Copilot together, and it seems to work ok. I've not used it heavily, though, as I'm retired.
Lazarus currently works very poorly on the Mac, alas. Everything from installing to actually building a simple form was broken in various ways.
Yes, Lazarus + FreePascal is great and imo preferable to Embarcadero Delphi nowadays.
I've found that you can mostly just use old Delphi books as a starting point for learning Lazarus.