Quote Originally Posted by Lifepower
Few days ago I checked the latest version of Free Pascal, but it's still not as half as good as Delphi. In fact, I disliked Delphi for creating large EXEs (~400 Kb; KOL can be a nice alternative though), but when I saw FreePascal's empty application take several megabytes :shock: - it was out of question for me. Lazarus as an IDE is not that fancy either - Delphi 7 is much better (and Delphi 2006 IDE can't even be compared to Lazarus).
Stop spreading nonsense! Hello world in Free Pascal is 20 kb. The entire game "the Sheep Killer" is 215kb. Lentil Wars is 420kb. Ok, Pixel is 4,4 mb, but then you have an application that beats Gimp. No, you propably are using an executable without smartlinking enabled, and perhaps even with debug info inside. Yes, Lazarus is big but not that big. Oh, and KOL works with Free Pascal as well...