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Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)

I learned Swift several years back, but didn't see myself using it until SwiftUI came to be. I have my fingers crossed for RustUI.

I use Pascal

With Lazarus is has a cross platform Desktop GUI

Lazarus actually is impressive considering lack of the non-swift alternatives out there and that React Native still doesn't have desktop support. I'm glad you shared, because Pascal is a language I never looked into before, but it seems like it was ahead of its time, but I wonder if there are any modern dialects?

>> I wonder if there are any modern dialects?

No there are not. It's extremely frustrating that Free Pascal and Delphi's Pascal are stuck with all the annoying baggage that more modern languages have been able to skip.

FreePascal and Delphi are still modern.

FreePascal just added RAII for automated memory management with records.

Delphi now has anonymous functions and some kind of type inference for variables

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