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From: egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Object Pascal vs Ada -- which is better for a hobbyist?
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:56:47 +0100
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On 15/03/16 10:34, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 15/03/2016 10:04, egarrulo wrote:
>> Lazarus is not a cross-platform GUI builder only. It is a complete IDE
>> that can cross-compile.  AFAIK, Ada lacks a comparable proposition.
>
> Right now I'm compiling an Ada project for VxWorks target under Windows,
> in GPS.
>
> [ All this has little or nothing to do with the IDE. Practically any IDE
> can cross compile. Common problems are with setting up GCC environment
> to enable cross-compiling, binding and linking. And yes, GPS supports
> remote debugging, well, if you have guts for using GDB, but that's
> another story ]

I should have been clearer.  I meant that Lazarus is a more complete IDE 
than GPS because Lazarus lets you both design your GUIs and 
cross-compile.  IMO, the more tasks an IDE lets you perform without 
leaving the IDE, the better it is for a hobbyist.

I forgot to mention that Object Pascal also offers fast compilations, 
which aid iterative development.