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New comment by ausare in "Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE"

ausare — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:35:16 +0000

“ The Object Pascal ecosystem has two options: Embarcadero Delphi (proprietary, Windows-first) and Free Pascal…”

This part isn’t true, for many years now we’ve also had Oxygene - https://www.remobjects.com/elements/oxygene/ (also proprietary)

New comment by ausare in "Could Apple Leave Europe?"

ausare — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:22:24 +0000

That would be interesting given they use Ireland to basically minimise tax, although they're still fighting a bill of $14bn the EU said they owe.

New comment by ausare in "Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?"

ausare — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:32:39 +0000

"why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?"

There are some companies/people keeping the torch burning but they're not as widely known, one such is Mercury which targets a whole host of platforms and is actually quite good - https://www.remobjects.com/elements/mercury/

The problem is it feels a bit of a niche language now because MS basically forced people on to C# by not actively maintaining VB.NET which was the first hop for people coming from VB. Early in my career I did various conversion projects for corps from VB to VB.NET then eventually as that atrophied to C#.

New comment by ausare in "Ask HN: Are people still using Pascal?"

ausare — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:00:03 +0000

RemObjects is still making and releasing a pascal compiler (https://www.remobjects.com/elements/) that’s now part of a suite of language support.

They originally licensed their compiler to Embarcadero back in the day.

They’ve modernised the language a lot.

RO also still make and support various components and tooling for Delphi.

I ‘grew up’ on Delphi but somehow ended up in .NET land eventually and now mostly do that and/or React but I do miss it from time to time.

JD Sports says 10M customers hit by cyber attack

ausare — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:26:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64452986

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34578386

Points: 2

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New comment by ausare in "A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x"

ausare — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:10:29 +0000

Oh man I remember Calmira from back in the day! Thanks for the blast from the past.

IIRC it was written in Delphi which I was using majorly around the same time so had fun poking around its internals and customising it even further.

I believe it started out as something called Calypso...those memories are vague though.

'Porn block' companies seek £3m in damages

ausare — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51235675

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22138374

Points: 4

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RemObjects releases Water for Windows to complement Fire

ausare — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:25:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2018/10/01/introducing_water/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129208

Points: 1

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