Basically, Pascal's current ecosystem exists in the shadow of one of the best RAD environments of the 90's - Delphi. And those compile times! A pretty well-suited language for game coding, actually.Īnd in terms of writing production code, libraries may or may not be a barrier.
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But the language, in the Borland dialects that most are using now, is somewhere in between C and C++ in terms of power overall: it's a little safer by default, still manual memory, but without needing to fling around quite so many pointers. Things like nested if-else with multiple conditionals are just a little more persnickity if you've been using C braces for decades. Pascal is unsurprising in a mostly good and sometimes frustrating way. (Optional) Project|Compiler Options|Code|Optimizations|smaller rather than faster -> Checked (Warning: this might decrease performance) Project|Compiler Options|Linking|Link Style|Link Smart (-XX) -> CheckedĤ. Project|Compiler Options|Linking|Debugging| Uncheck all except `Strip Symbols From Executable (-Xs) -> Checked`Strip Symbols From Executable (-Xs) -> Checkedģ. Project|Compiler Options|Code|Smart Linkable (-CX) -> CheckedĢ. 2.7 mb = Optimized compiler without debug infoġ. 7.5 mb = Default build without debug info
2.1 mb = Optimized compiler without debug info
3.2 mb = Default build without debug info And if you run `upx` against the resulting binary, it will be even smaller. Tl dr is that if you create a RELEASE build, should be about 2 - 5mb for a GUI app, depending on the platform.
This was written a few years ago with FPC v2.2 (latest is FPC v3.2), but generally matches my experience:
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