Gedanken zu systemnaher Software, exotischen Programmiersprachen und warum nicht jedes Problem ein Framework braucht.
https://blog.jakobs.systems/micro/20260115-warum-purebasic-freebasic-lazarus/
#Developer #Purebasic #freepascal #lazarus #Framework #Software #Softwareentwickler
I've been working on an AD&D2e dungeon master toolkit gui application thingy in FreePascal/Lazarus this week. I'm using the Qt widget set, and documented a few obscure hacky things like loading embedded fonts and qss stylesheets baked into the executable, mapping LCL controls to their Qt equivalent, and accessing the underlying Qt bits of LCL components, etc....
There isn't much info about this on the wiki's (probably because it's hacky AF and not a particularly intended use case) - in any event, have at it:
How come the #Amiga has like 4 different „distributions” of #GCC (the infamous 2.95.3, bebbo's 8.x, the weird 13.x from Bartman/Abyss which is binary only and spits ELFs and whatever else I forgot) but each of these is so inconvenient to install and work with?
Yet, somehow, #FreePascal seems to built itself in crosscompiler mode for m68k/amiga on every host I put it on, not crying like a baby about everything.
🌖 GitHub - torokernel/torokernel：Toro Unikernel 核心原始碼專案
➤ 擺脫冗餘：以 Toro Unikernel 重新定義微服務的運行效率
✤ https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel
在雲端運算追求極致效率的趨勢下，Toro Unikernel 展現了一種將應用程式與核心高度整合的革新思維。這款專為微服務設計的專用核心（Dedicated Kernel），捨棄了傳統作業系統的冗餘架構，改採極簡化的 microVM 形式運行。透過 Free Pascal 編寫，Toro 深度整合了 virtio-fs 與 virtio-vsocket 技術，實現了極速啟動與微小的鏡像體積。開發者能藉由 Docker 環境快速建置並部署至 QEMU 或 Firecracker 虛擬化平臺，為高效能雲端原生應用提供了一個兼具安全性與靈活性的底層基礎。
+ 看到有人用 Free Pascal 開發作業系統核心真的很令人驚艷，這對於追求啟動速
##作業系統 #Unikernel #微服務 #FreePascal #虛擬化
Things I'd like to achieve next year
...with zero pressure - just stuff I'd like to do if I get the chance
There are a lot of moving parts to all of these. Some need me to learn multiple sub-skills, such as 8086 assembly. Like I said, this isn't a list of Things Alex Must Get Done Next Year. I'd be happy if I achieved just one of them.
I'm curious... Which one of these would you like to see the most?
I had written a solid test framework for #Freepascal inspired by what I used to do in Lua and which happens to be exactly what Go does too.
The last few days I fell into the Freepascal Tylenol once again and damn, I'm so glad and proud of that test framework. I just had to link the unit (pascal module) to my test file, implement tests and go.
Moreover, I'm happily surprised by how I can use the framework, written in #ObjFPC mode with classes and shit, with my program that I'm writing in #FPC mode (i.e. Pascal, without the whole object oriented stuff). The compiler can mix them nicely, as long as I use the framework in a non-object fashion (advanced records enabled, because they're the best feature, I don't care)
Gerade gestern wieder mit @me_ diskutiert¹:
mit dem ganzen Python überall² haben unsere Studies keine Ahnung mehr, was Pointer, Stack und Heap wirklich sind, und wie sie sich anfühlen.
Und ich komm da³ immer wieder zurück zu #FreePascal: ich hab starke⁴ statische Typisierung, Referenzen⁵, Call by Value und Call by Reference, Stack und Heap⁶, und bei Bedarf auch Klassen und Objekte.
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¹der eine hardware-nähere Sicht drauf hat als ich
²nichts gegen dynamische Programmiersprachen, ich komm von Scheme (und Perl) und mach fast alles in Ruby, ich werd nur mit Python überhaupt nicht warm.
³didaktisch sinnvolle statisch typisierte Sprachen
⁴im Gegensatz zu C, was schwach typisiert ist
⁵kontrollierte Pointer
⁶sichtbar, in FP kann ich bei Bedarf meinen eigenen Memory Manager schreiben.
SedaiBasic, trình thông dịch BASIC hoàn toàn bằng Free Pascal, đã ra mắt! Mô phỏng Commodore BASIC v7, SedaiBasic cho thấy hiệu suất ấn tượng, nhanh hơn Python 2-8 lần trong các benchmark quan trọng. Phát triển với sự hỗ trợ của AI (Claude), hứa hẹn tốc độ ngang ngửa C. Đây là bản tiền phát hành đầy tiềm năng.
#SedaiBasic #FreePascal #BASIC #Interpreter #Programming #AI #Performance
#TrìnhThôngDịch #LậpTrình #HiệuNăng #NgônNgữLậpTrình
Dear Friends of ye olden days (well last year actually),
One of the things about the #Fediverse and the cyber-verse and other poems. Is with verse no one knows wot the poets are
About.
Are they in Devon are they in Hell
oberine
those dumbed elusive pimple-knickers
Well I am seeking They there and hear
and I can tell you
I am not a bot or AI in dis
guise.
AND I know Nothing. N O T H I N G!
Fortunately I have a cunning plan
as unusual as any quitter critter:
1) Be Tue or better still True 2 the best ideals and practices you know
2) Find your old HTML, programming even if unavailable
3) Deliberately make mistakes except in programming
For example:
Yesterday I programmed in #FreePascal #Python and #HTML
Today I will be looking for a python compiler. I am using Thonny IDE
for now
I did not know I was on this instance/server.
Thank the admins for all their work AND send them some monies.
Personally I am presently broke from whining, women and sung
Have a great day everyone and remember. Survival is our superpower.
❤️🎉🦞
PasLLM is finally publicly released!
A high-performance LLM inference engine written in pure Object Pascal.
✨ No Python dependencies
🎯 Advanced 4-bit quantization
🖥️ Cross-platform (Delphi & FreePascal)
⚡ Native performance
Supports Llama 3.x, Qwen, Phi-3, Mixtral, DeepSeek R1 & more!
Open source (AGPL 3.0): https://github.com/BeRo1985/pasllm (synced from my private repo on my on server)
Đội Lazarus thông báo phát hành Lazarus FreePascal IDE 4.4 #Lazarus #FreePascal #IDE #LậpTrình #PhátTriểnPhầnMềm #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ox3jpd/the_lazarus_team_is_glad_to_announce_lazarus/
Passend zum neuen Bugfix Release 4.4 der Lazarus IDE wurde uns eine neue Version von #FpcUpDeLuxe bereitgestellt.
Mit FpcUpDeLuxe können sich alle sehr einfach die unterschiedlichsten Entwicklungsumgebungen mit Free-Pascal und Lazarus IDE installieren.
Ein Quelltext für viele Plattformen ...
Das Lazarus-Team hat die neue Bugfix-Version 4.4 für uns alle bereit gestellt.
https://www.lazarusforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17425&sid=90ae0918e1473a6ff4cc71637944daed
Free-Pascal und Lazarus IDE: Ein Quelltext für viele Plattformen ...
FpcUpDeLuxe with a new version
You find the brand new FpcUpDeLuxe for easy installation of FreePascal and / or Lazarus IDE here:
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/releases
With FpcUpDeLuxe everyone is able to setup different environments for software developement with FreePascal and Lazarus.
One code for many platforms ...
Lazarus Bugfixes Release 4.4 launched
The Lazarus team has released bugfix version 4.4 for the Lazarus IDE.
More info:
One code for many platforms ...
Yesterday, in an attempt to avoid all sorts of responsibilities, I started pulling apart another #Psion SIBO C SDK tool.
ECOBJ.EXE takes an Intel OMF file (.OBJ) for a class and moves the class descriptor data into the code segment. Unlike #CTRAN, I have absolutely no docs on how it does this. I also have no experience with the object file format.
This has never stopped me before.
So, armed with a hex editor, a PDF documenting OMF (link below), and my beloved #Pascal, I've set to work.
So far, so good!
https://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/Omfg.pdf
#Pascal #FreePascal #16bit #DOSBox #DOSBoxStaging #RetroComputing #RetroDev
If you were writing a #compiler (or, in my case, a #preprocessor) and you had to think of a variable name for a "class" struct, but you can't use the keyword class... what would you call that variable?
Plot twist: The compiler/preprocessor is written in #ObjectPascal. (So it's actually a record, not a struct. Same difference.)
I'm currently using the variable name class_item which is a very un-Pascal identifier for many reasons. I'm thinking of using PClass or PsiClass just to get around it.
Let's face it, the www has become a disgusting cesspool of horrible corporate excrement. As such, when we needed a web store to sell our art, the only viable option seemed to be to build a site completely from scratch.
Shopify is a terrible company, firing employees for not using AI ( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/08/1518213/shopify-ceo-says-staffers-need-to-prove-jobs-cant-be-done-by-ai-before-asking-for-more-headcount ) -- as is pretty much every other off-the-shelf platform out there.
Now, I absolutely loathe #webdev with the fury of a thousand suns. To make the experience slightly less painful, I decided to implement the entire back-end of the website in #pascal - a programming language I am quite fond of.
The pascal-side of the webdev experience has been quite pleasant, with the horrible bits naturally remaining to be js/css.
I made a wee video on how web development is done in #FreePascal - I tried to give a birds-eye view of how it all works, and it still ended up being an hour-long video. That probably is more because I suck at brevity when it comes to stuff I am passionate about :)
In any event,- here's the video:
Pascal for webdev? Actually quite reasonable!
