Just because it had a cool name, I downloaded Lazarus from my OS's package repos. I was kind of excited that the language it uses was freepascal. That weekend, for fun, I refactored a few of the apps I had built recently to try other methodologies, and it was a blast from the past. As a kid, pascal was a very different experience, and by the time I mowed enough lawns to afford Delphi, everyone had moved to C++.<p>It hasn't been completely smooth. Doing more modern tasks like HTTP requests are not included, and adding the plugin for it is a little fiddly, but for your basic GUI tasks, it is actually pretty fun, and simple on a level reminiscent of Visual Basic.<p>I encourage everyone to give it a try, and though you might not make your name writing pascal software in 2022, its fun like driving a car with a stickshift, or using hand tools to build a table. It is an experience worth enduring to experience the appreciation and perspective it provides.<p>Try it!