> It's more powerful than your PC back in the late 1990s.

Sounds like a fun thought, but almost certainly untrue: https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42

All new PCs sold in the late 1990s handedly beat these specifications. On CPU, storage, RAM, and display. The DM42 firmly remains an embedded system that's just enough for the calculator software and not much more.

If you want to take it back to the early 1980s, you start reaching the claim being true.

Lazarus is mature: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Sadly, I feel like it’s too mature. If you’re used to contemporary development environments, Lazarus feels like a clunky throwback. I say that with lots of love and respect for the Lazarus team and community. Delphi’s even worse. Working in VSCode is... fine. For such a beautiful language, the ecosystem has really fallen behind the times.

What improvements and modernizations do you have in mind?

Lsp. Seamless support for external editor/changed files so I can use vim without losing changes. Component for markdown rendering. Theme support so apps can switch between light and dark themes at runtime.

Honestly theres a lot I miss when I write Lazarus apps.

Try Oxygene. Files are always up to date (you don't even save, if you type, it'll end up on disk, same in reverse if you save with another editor.) Code completion works. IDE supports themes. Most importantly the language is _far_ more modern than Lazarus / FPC.

It can import Lazarus (and Delphi) projects, but does not have a form designer built in.

I think this response is more than a little unhelpful

I wanted

>> Theme support so apps can switch between light and dark themes at runtime.

You present

> IDE supports themes.

You don't see the difference?

I want to produce apps that decides, at runtime, which theme to use.

I also don't know if I'd consider it a Lazarus option if

a) It's a different language, not Delphi

and

b) It has no RAD tools.

After all, if I want niche languages with poor support for RAD, I'm spoilt for choice. What I want is for Lazarus to be updated with some modern features, not replace a well-known RAD tool with a niche, expensive, proprietary and little-known language.

You're right, I missed that you wanted styles in your app not IDE. I was thinking IDE especially re the designer, so sorry for missing that.

It's not intended to be unhelpful, and I hope the rest of what I wrote, which you didn't quote, and which I _think_ from what you wrote is of interest to you, is ok.

and it costs 749 bucks....

You're right re commercial. If it's personal use, twenty bucks a month.

I wish FreePascal would allow declaring variables anywhere and loop local variables. I just can't program like C89 anymore and without these two basic quality-of-life features, Pascal simply feels stuck in history.

althttpd is even easier. :)

Wouldn't recommend, only packaged on Alpine and nix.

It's a single-binary program that's easy to compile. You don't need to depend on packaging...

Are all these food items real? Some of them sound made up...

and are these California prices? It's totally bonkers.

Music videos on the Windows 95 CD didn't occupy space on your hard disk, either. As long as the operating system still fit on the CD-ROM, it didn't matter what other extras were on it.

It depends on one's definition of dictatorship. I personally do not believe, for instance, the British Crown is one such instance.

Besides that, multiple ways to read this. "Monarchies" could've been a reference to pre modern monarchies of which many made it through at least 3 successions. Or as a correction to the upper comment, saying that the Kim's are more monarchy than plain dictatorship.

The British Crown had to concede some rights centuries ago, or there would have been civil wars and probably no more crown. Dear Leaders are the ones that don't have to concede anything, yet.

Not only have there been multiple civil wars, there has also been “no more crown” after the beheading of King Charles I (1649) until the restoration in 1660.

> or there would have been civil wars

Would have been? There were.

LibSQL doesn't look anywhere close to active enough to consider it for production IMO.

Just compare the most recent commits from LibSQL: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/commits/main/

To those of SQLite: https://sqlite.org/src/timeline

One of these looks like a healthy and actively maintained project. The other isn't quite dead, but it's limping along.

Your activity comparison isn't wrong, but it's because they are focused on doing a complete rewrite instead of focusing on the libSQL fork.

https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...

So yes, it's abandoned?

> The US corporations are forced by law to always prioritize whoever represents the current US government

Where do you get your information from? This is just plainly false. Heck, it runs afoul of the Constitution, so even if the government were to try something, it'd be smacked down real fast.

> Where do you get your information from?

Comment right above yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877163

> even if the government were to try something, it'd be smacked down real fast.

One would hope, but evidently not!

I don't know if you're joking, but if not you need to start paying attention to what has been happening in US courts recently.

Mind bringing up any concrete examples?

I think it’s more accurate to say that US corporations are subject to US law. Indeed there are no laws that say anything about corporations prioritizing the party in power, but they often do as matter course.

No, that is not valid. The "<" and ">" characters in string values must always be escaped with &lt; and &gt;. The correct form would be:

    <a href="/" title="&lt;a /&gt; /&gt;"></a>

Why, for $3800, you can now get a brand new Apple computer with a million times the RAM!