I loved AutoIT as a kid! And it was also fun playing around with stuff like https://www.perfectautomation.com/ (nice to see that it’s now freeware, and the newer replacement project is completely free / open source!).
But it was about the same time as I started digging around in Delphi 7, then discovered a RAD package pretty much exactly like Delphi, but with PHP instead (wild times), and as I was going down the webmaster route in parallel it was the thing I spent most of my days in. (That, and making bootleg Windows XP builds just for fun, of course.)
Lazarus is great and seems more stable than when I’ve last tried it. (~10 years ago, wow!) I don’t think I can come back to Pascal now, and I don’t really like this drag’n’drop GUI building method anymore, but it’s a great IDE otherwise!
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I loved AutoIT as a kid! And it was also fun playing around with stuff like https://www.perfectautomation.com/ (nice to see that it’s now freeware, and the newer replacement project is completely free / open source!).
But it was about the same time as I started digging around in Delphi 7, then discovered a RAD package pretty much exactly like Delphi, but with PHP instead (wild times), and as I was going down the webmaster route in parallel it was the thing I spent most of my days in. (That, and making bootleg Windows XP builds just for fun, of course.)
Fortunately, for Delphi we have an opensource successor:
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913414
Lazarus is great and seems more stable than when I’ve last tried it. (~10 years ago, wow!) I don’t think I can come back to Pascal now, and I don’t really like this drag’n’drop GUI building method anymore, but it’s a great IDE otherwise!