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This is really cool. It's great to see someone pushing for good desktop applications. I'm not an electron hater, but I don't love it either, and I'm happy to see new alternatives emerge, in a fun language like clojure no less.



Free and open source: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php

Other 30+ cross-platform GUI toolkits / frameworks: https://www.slant.co/topics/983/~best-cross-platform-gui-too...


Sadly Lazarus and Delphi don't get the attention they deserve. Writing even a sophisticated app in either of these platforms is a pleasure.


Maybe it's a question of personal taste, but Pascal (in any of its newer forms) isn't a langauge I like working with. Up-front variable declaration, verbose flow control, next to no support for functional programming... LCL is nice, I especially like how small the result is, but in the last ~30 years, programming language design has progressed a lot and Pascal just seems archaic, and not in a good way. Modern PL design isn't just about "syntax sugar" as the FreePascal community would have you believe.


Yes, it does come down to personal taste and also programming style. Not everyone wants or needs functional programming.




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