Friday, December 14, 2018

Lazarus IDE on multiplatform environment


(Integrated Development Environment) development platforms- these development IDE’s, were very popular in the mid to late 90’s and ushered in an era or rapid Windows applications development, by letting you visually build your rich Windows applications, such as  dragging and dropping widgets on the screen and then attaching event-driven code actions, such as button clicks , to them.
This was great for rapidly prototyping and developing rich graphical applications, and orders of magnitude faster than writing Windows apps using the heaving-iron tools of the time of C/c++ compiling the very large and overwhelming windows API. Ironically even 2016 some of the popular  IDE’s for for web or mobile development still use the same classic IDE design pioneered by Visual Basic, with choices like Adobe Dreamweaver and Apple’s Xcode and Android Studio are trying to re-create the magic of those 90’s IDE’s but sometimes just fall short.
Although the hey days of rich Windows client applications  ( or Mac, or Linux ) are behind us with developers mostly focusing their efforts  today on the web browser and native  mobile apps , there are still use cases when full-blown rich client applications need to be developed for the PC. While Visual Basic (Microsoft) and Delphi  (Embarcadero) are still around in their  modern incarnations, I want to discuss another compelling open-source, cross platform alternative, Lazarus.


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