Learn Pascal Programming With Lazarus and Free Pascal (First Lesson)

You can install Lazarus and Free Pascal to write, design, debug and compile programs on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux. Mac OS). In this series I will show you how to creatre both commandline and visual (windowed) applications and how to transfer your programs to another operating system (later on, I’ll show how to write on Windows PC and run on a Raspberry Pi).

Huw Collingbourne is author of The Little Book Of Delphi (Object Pascal) Programming. Available from:

[gammyhorse]

Modern Pascal is such an underrated language and it's a pity it doesn't get the attention it deserves. In my opinion, knocks to the ground many so called 'cool' languages, and Lazarus is great also.

[pyroMaximilian]

I haven't wtitten a single line of Pascal in 25 years. This brought back fond memories of using Borland Turbo Pascal in school. I was partial to C back then for its brevity and flexibility, but 25 years of experience have taught me that a type-safe, verbose language is always a better option!

[ChrisPinCornwall]

Brilliant! Just what I wanted. Being a geriatric systems programmer, I wanted to learn a new language and had decided upon Pascal... And lo... Here you are! Thank you so much.

[flugelberger]

Huw Collingbourne! Wow - a name familiar from my earliest days of interest in computers. Good to see you still going strong, and promoting this great IDE.

[garyhalsey]

Lazarus doesn’t seem to get much love on YouTube, so well done for creating some tutorials. I’ve been writing Pascal for at least 20+ years, starting with Delphi then moving to Lazarus. I write for both Windows & Linux but have never managed to get it working successfully on my Mac. I would be very grateful if you could do a guide on that at some stage maybe? Looking forward to the next video!

[AutMouseLabs]

A cross platform form maker is cool. I have never used Pascal, but it seems intuitive enough. Looking forward to learning more about this.

[GaryChike]

Glad to see a renewed series on Lazarus and FPC. Thank you Huw! Michalis Kamburelis, the creator of Castle Game Engine, is always looking for basic training material for Object Pascal/Lazarus. His tutorials tend to be for more experienced programmers. I'll refer him to this series.

[mkaberli]

I started with Pascal many decades ago and I'm glad to have found this source.

[billb]

This is great. I put up a little teaser video about Lazarus on Linux a few weeks ago. I've added a link to your channel in the description. Looking forward to learning more myself by watching your tutorials.

[YippeePlopFork]

I am a systems architect in my "day job" (my primary being search and rescue). I haven’t touched Pascal since the late nineties and I am overjoyed to see that it’s thriving again (and open source, with a non proprietary ide!). Thank you Huw for making and sharing these videos!

How does modern Pascal & Lazarus compare to C++ in terms of multi-threading and overall performance? The last pascal project I worked on professionally, used Delphi and it was a multi-user large-scale administration component. It performed very well (much better than the VB6 predecessor!). Although I ended up working with C and C++, I am going to take a look at the modern version of pascal and get current again because I used to really enjoy programming in pascal. Thanks for renewing my interest in what was one of my favourite languages!

[mosaadhasan]

Thank you for your help
Pls dos lazarus have firedack component?

[sigrice]

Nice, keep making them. It's "read line and write line" FYI

[LunaticEdit]

I started my career programming in Delphi 7. I know over 20 programming languages now, including all the 'cool kids' ones. For some reason, it's almost impossible to write bad pascal. It's basically the polar opposite of javascript.

[apollosun]

Jeepers Huw, you got old! When we first met, they didn't even HAVE Youtube :)

[jimbobago]

Has anyone actually gotten Lazarus to work on a Mac? I tried downloading on mine and got told “Lazarus is damaged” and was instructed to just trash it.

[dng]

Does not work in macOS. The program can run in terminal but not in Lazarus. It sort of run just nothing prompt you …

[lxleo-jyfl]

how old are you, sir?why are you still prgramming