<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rcarmo</author><text>I mentioned Lazarus in other threads a few days ago (since my kids are playing around with it) and it&amp;#x27;s great to see it as a top-level post. Some random thoughts:&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#x27;s somewhat amusing to realize that in 2017 this is pretty much the easiest way to do a desktop app (besides RealBasic&amp;#x2F;Xojo which I&amp;#x27;ve yet to try - was put off by their mandatory registration)&lt;p&gt;- I wish we had RAD environments like this for more languages (Racket, Python, etc. - even JS).&lt;p&gt;- On the Mac, installation is a bit fiddly. It needs a little polish and support (a standalone, integrated bundle would be better, or at the very least a unified installer).&lt;p&gt;- We&amp;#x27;ve been retrofitting web UIs to desktops to such an extent (I&amp;#x27;m looking at you, Electron) that the tiny, supremely efficient apps Lazarus spits out put the last couple of years into stark perspective (2GB RAM used by Slack, etc.)&lt;p&gt;I love Lazarus, and hope it helps resurrect the RAD approach for other languages - if anyone knows of any similar environments (besides QtCreator, etc.), could you share the links?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE</title><url>http://www.lazarus-ide.org</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>samuell</author><text>Lazarus&amp;#x2F;FPC checks so many nice boxes:&lt;p&gt;[x] Statically compiled&lt;p&gt;[x] Native UI on Linux&amp;#x2F;Mac&amp;#x2F;Win&lt;p&gt;[x] Typically compiled without code changes on Linux&amp;#x2F;Mac&amp;#x2F;Win&lt;p&gt;[x] Small binaries&lt;p&gt;[x] No GC&lt;p&gt;[x] Readable, somewhat python-like syntax&lt;p&gt;[x] Still, doesn&amp;#x27;t rely on indentation for nested blocks&lt;p&gt;[ ] (Fill in)</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE</title><url>http://www.lazarus-ide.org</url></story>