[quote="Lifepower"]I also tried a simple "Hello World" application. It consisted of a window, one button and one edit box, all made in latest version of Lazarus + FPC. Enabled smart]

This is akin to the similar problem of taking a written program in your prefered language and then writing a 'port' in another language, seeing that it does not perform to expectations and concludes that the new language is no good. What is not considered usually is that you need to know more about the language to make a truely accurate statement about it.

It is usually best to educate yourself before stating a public conclusion. Or else you'll find yourself having to go back to correct yourself overand over and over...

FPC is great. With Lazarus or not. Lazarus is great too. No, it's not Delphi, but with the current state of the Delphi Studio(refering to 2005/2006) that may or may not be a good thing. If you are going to learn, do it from the experts or knowlagable users. In fact if you want to do some interesting compairisons, it in some ways gives the GNU compiler, GCC a run for it's money.


But getting back on track, Delphi is not the only professional Pascal solution right now, it's just the more popular one. I think that the seperation of Delphi and Borland might end up being a good thing. It was afterall some of the more prominent corporate figure heads from Borland the company that have caused some turmoil for the one highly successful IDE suite.