• firefly@neon.nightbulb.net
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    7 months ago

    @lightnegative@lemmy.world

    > “Want to code on that thing too? Uh. Idk. Use other distro, would be much easier as debian sucks in this category.”

    Not if one is using the ultimate secret weapon of coding: Lazarus.

    Nothing comes close for rapid development of Linux applications. And I mean nothing. Need to make a networking application. Built-in. Choose from several GUI kits such as GTK, QT, FLTK, FpGUI? Built-in. Need to create an operating system? Drop down some inline assembler for the BIOS loader and do the EFI PXE in Lazarus or any other editor, and point your kernel to your FreePascal binaries.

    Almost anything you can do with C, you can do with FreePascal and Lazarus with the world’s best free RAD IDE and a bazillion units built in. I have found no single IDE that has so much just ready to patch together into a working Linux application.

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      7 months ago

      But it looks like it can only do Pascal? Like. Sorry but you can’t just come out of the corner and say that coding is great on debian because my special IDE for only one single programming langauge exists.

      What if I don’t want to learn a seventh programming language? What if I want to continue my C++ project in NeoVim? I dont want to rewrite something entirely. Same for PHP, Rust, C, Python.

      Your IDE doesn’t even support the most important way of editing code. Vim mode.