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I remember some years ago that I was able to make this less than 1mb. It needed a little tweaking like upx but nothing very complex.

Lazarus should have been the golden standard for creating desktop apps. Every other solution I've tried is subpar either in licensing or costs in general, executable size and resource usage, non native components, extra dependencies etc

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I think unfortunately what holds Lazarus back is the Pascal programming language. Although it is a very capable language that can hold its own against other languages, it suffers from a reputation of being obsolete.

It’s a pity that the C family of languages won out over Wirth’s languages. Pascal’s superior string handling alone would have saved us from countless security flaws.

And complex compiling. Pascal compilers are very fast.

Can someone recreate it in Go?

Go is basically Pascal with curly braces anyway. Wonder if a Pascal to Go transpiler could work here...

Delphi/FP Component Pascal has a well-developed object model that is more expressive than Go in general (inheritance, virtual methods including virtual static methods etc), so it's not a 1:1 mapping. But all of these still have a straightforward mapping to Go, even if the output wouldn't be idiomatic, so it should be possible to transpile.

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