mORMot2

Funny, I was just reading about this: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2 FreePascal ORM, so in an adjacent space (ORM, can work with both SQLite and MySQL). I guess DB devs really love marmots? :-))

I quite liked FreePascal and thought that Lazarus makes the experience even more palatable. Stuff like this is really good for cross platform GUIs without having to shove a whole browser in there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library Oh and the compiler is pleasantly fast and the language feels a bit easier to work with than C++ and the whole RAD approach in general for GUI software in particular is something that I yearn for more of. At the same time, even modern Pascal dialects seem niche and the communities and libraries aren't quite there, especially when it comes to the ease of doing something like webdev: mORMot exists but will never be as popular and deeply integrated with everything like something like Spring Boot https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2 That said, there are also some cool projects out there, for exam

This article reads more like an ad for mORMot 2 than Pascal. I've been out of the Pascal game for a few years, so I had to look up mORMot 2.[0] Apparently Synopse are the maintainers of it. The article basically compare their CSV/JSON serialising library to Go's standard CSV/JSON libraries. Looking at the Go code, it's pretty clear why it has memory issues, it reads all the lines into a single object (well, `[][]string`) immediately, rather than reading line for line (which takes advantage of the stream). I am not sure how this is remarkable and impressive for Pascal. They talk about how you don't need to use the `try..finally..Free` routine all the time, but that's only if the object in question is an interface. Interfaces are somehow handled by a reference counter in Object Pascal, so you need to know how to operate on objects vs i

Here you go: Mormot 1.18 (stable): https://github.com/synopse/mORMot/blob/master/SynCrtSock.pas Mormot 2: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/master/src/net/mormo... https://synopse.info/files/html/api-1.18/SynCrtSock.html#THT... https://synopse.info/files/html/Synopse%20mORMot%20Framework... They have multiple client implementations. You can pick the one you like (THTTPClientSocket, TWinHTTP, TWinINET, TCurlHTTP, TWinHttpWebSocketClient).

Lazarus is great! While FPC and Lazarus make it very easy and productive to make cross-platform GUI software, people should know that mORMot (https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2) makes it very easy to develop cross-platform web apps. mORMot has been around for over a decade, the feature-set is very rich and mature, and the development and user forums are also very active - you can easily confirm that by checking the github repo's commit logs and visiting their forum. mORMot's ORM is quite interesting - it's based on SQLite and supports all other mainstream databases through SQLite's virtual table mechanism.

https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2 Very rich and mature feature-set, with active development and active user forums.

The most powerful and stable web framework is mORMot, it supports both FPC and Delphi. Here is its version 2 in development: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2 I use Delphi all the time, IMHO, it's the best tool for Windows desktop app development - concise language, blazing fast compile time, easy UI design, flexible UI framework, all-in-one IDE, and so on. It's such a joy to me :) And here is my new desktop software written in Delphi: https://docxmanager.com/