> Both Free Pascal and QB64 are maintained and under relatively-active development, with their most recent releases in 2021… but they are mostly ignored because they expose arcane languages that most people have no interest in these days.
Touché. Personally I think Pascal (the FPC/Lazarus variety) was pretty cool, straight up one of the best ways to easily do cross platform GUI apps, something of that old RAD fame: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php
I wish someone would prove me wrong, what are the best modern cross-platform options for native GUI?
At the same time, for everything else in similar circumstances (statically compiled executables, relatively safe to code and use), Go has replaced it for me, in great part due to both the ergonomics of the language, but also just how batteries included the standard library is.
Touché. Personally I think Pascal (the FPC/Lazarus variety) was pretty cool, straight up one of the best ways to easily do cross platform GUI apps, something of that old RAD fame: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php
I wish someone would prove me wrong, what are the best modern cross-platform options for native GUI?
At the same time, for everything else in similar circumstances (statically compiled executables, relatively safe to code and use), Go has replaced it for me, in great part due to both the ergonomics of the language, but also just how batteries included the standard library is.