pascal

Lazarus 1.0 release available for download. Great, the Pascal IDE is now available in version 1.0. And also for OSX. I've always played around with the pre-releases and it's really impressive what's all included. Nevertheless, I ended up with RealBasic, but I still have Lazarus and FreePascal installed and play around with them from time to time.

Custom Drawn Interface/Android - Lazarus wiki. Hah, there is also quite a bit for FreePascal and Lazarus (the FP IDE with a touch of Delphi) regarding the programming of Android apps. It's all still a bit wobbly and hacky, but it's making progress. The idea is quite funny - a minimal Java app with minimal activity and then the integration of Pascal code via JNI. The idea there is to be able to continue using the LCL - the GUI library of Lazarus - so that you can program across systems. And you can then also use the built-in GUI Builder.

ucsd-psystem-vm 0.11. I just had a flashback - UCSD-p System is alive! The link is a VM for UCSD Pascal that runs under Linux. And there is also the original UCSD-p System for download. There is even a version (IV) for DOS, which is probably the easiest to run.

python4delphi - Embedding Python within a Delphi application. Tutorials allegedly also work with Lazarus and Free Pascal, and probably rudimentary also under OSX. Could be interesting for one of these crazy projects that keep haunting me.

FPC New Features 2.6.0 - Lazarus wiki. And further nice changes in FreePascal, especially the new Delphi features will certainly interest one or the other, or also the further expanded ObjectPascal dialect for Cocoa programming under OSX. If now Lazarus switches from Carbon to standard Cocoa and thus also becomes fully 64-bit, it will become really interesting even for normal work with it. In any case, if you don't like Objective-C. Or if you prefer the Delphi-like environment of the XCode environment.

Xcode4 / Objective Pascal - Available Files. If you want to play around with Pascal in the Xcode4 environment, this is certainly a good starting point. It describes how to integrate FPC into the environment, there are ready-made templates for projects and even more fun: it describes how to program iOS devices in Pascal. Back to the Future! Or Back from the Future?

extpascal - Ext JS wrapper for Object Pascal. Well, I always wanted to program my web applications with Pascal and give them an Ajax-GUI. Because it's possible. And every RIA hipster gets a heart attack when they see the sources.

Pascal Script | RemObjects Software. More like a curiosity you find on the net - a scripting engine that has a syntax very similar to Object Pascal and can be integrated into Delphi and Lazarus (FreePascal RAD IDE).

Lazarus. I mean, how can I skip something like a free Delphi clone when I write about IDEs and RAD tools? So here's the link, there are also OSX versions of it. And it's definitely an active development project. And hey, Pascal was my first high-level language after Basic when I started programming. Oh, and there's a pretty solid bridge to the Cocoa frameworks with Objective Pascal. Update: wow, that brings back nostalgia! Building command-line tools in Pascal! And the IDE isn't bad at all, it can do a lot!

Free Pascal - Advanced open source Pascal compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal - Home Page - Blast from the Past. The new 2.4 of Free Pascal supports OSX/Arm as a target. Yes, this is supposed to allow programming iPhone applications - and with the lifting of Apple's tool restrictions, this could almost be realistic (though I don't know how good the integration with Cocoa is). However, I'm not really sure if I would want to deal with Pascal again after all these years.

Lazarus Snapshots - just for completeness: there is also a GUI-IDE like Delphi for Free Pascal, and according to the list of snapshots it also works on OSX (i.e. the Mac, not the iPhone). Those who want to play around with Pascal might be able to get started with the linked snapshots.