Are the Lazarus executables still slow and big as hell? Tried Lazarus years ago and the exes were very slow, I went back to Delphi. Besides Delphi is free now and you can make commercial apps with it
for my needs Lazarus is an excellent compiler. I don't know how it compares to Delphi but the speed and exe sizes are acceptable to me. I think if you try a simple hello world program, yes the exe's are big. Lazarus has a big runtime. Once the line numbers increase in your applications the exe size becomes normal. Unless things have changed Delphi is not exactly free. You get a license for 1 year that is renewed. At any time this license can be revoked or not renewed. I think in a few years we will see this free license disappear. Many will be forced to actually purchase Delphi because they have invested so much time into building their apps and there is no other option to migrate them to something else (not even Lazarus). Similar to what Unity did with their license, but probably to a better strategy.
Are the Lazarus executables still slow and big as hell?
Tried Lazarus years ago and the exes were very slow, I went back to Delphi. Besides Delphi is free now and you can make commercial apps with it
for my needs Lazarus is an excellent compiler. I don't know how it compares to Delphi but the speed and exe sizes are acceptable to me. I think if you try a simple hello world program, yes the exe's are big. Lazarus has a big runtime. Once the line numbers increase in your applications the exe size becomes normal.
Unless things have changed Delphi is not exactly free. You get a license for 1 year that is renewed. At any time this license can be revoked or not renewed. I think in a few years we will see this free license disappear. Many will be forced to actually purchase Delphi because they have invested so much time into building their apps and there is no other option to migrate them to something else (not even Lazarus). Similar to what Unity did with their license, but probably to a better strategy.