Why developers like Lazarus

What is Lazarus?

It is a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

Lazarus is a tool in the Integrated Development Environment category of a tech stack.

Lazarus is an open source tool with 355 GitHub stars and 93 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Lazarus's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Lazarus?

Companies

back-end

Developers

27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Lazarus.

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Lazarus Integrations

Linux, iOS, Android OS, Windows, and macOS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Lazarus. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Lazarus.

Linux

iOS

Android OS

Windows

macOS

Pros of Lazarus

Support for Multi-Platform-Compiling

Performance

GUI Designer

Open Source

Visual GUI Designer

Opensource

True Cross Platform

Cross Platform Development

True Cross-Platform

Fast and small binaries

Cross Compiler

Android and iOS Support

Refactoring

IOS and Android Development

Friendly IRC + Forum Community

Amazing Community

Code Completion

Delphi compatibility

Code Refactoring

Because the pricing of Delphi is totally outrageous

Decisions about Lazarus

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Lazarus in their tech stack.

Arthur Henrique Della Fraga

Software Solution Architect at Supernova · Apr 14, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 21.5K views

Needs advice

Delphi

and

Lazarus

I just got into a new job at an organization that develops Windows applications in Object Pascal.

Delphi 10.3 is the most common IDE being used between developers here. However my first impressions of it weren't the best and reading I found Lazarus as an alternative, but haven't installed it yet. I'm pretty new in Object Pascal development and I already need to learn a bunch of things, but it doesn't scare me, so it would be nice to go forward with a good IDE choice.

I'm not sure these options are simply interchangeable, since Wikipedia says Lazarus is "for programmers developing with the Object Pascal language, which is as close as possible to Delphi". Any thoughts would be very welcome! Thanks very much.

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Lazarus's Features

Cross Platform IDE. Work on your favourite system
Platform independent projects out of the box. Simply copy your project to another platform and compile it
Build native binaries. Distribute your binaries without dependencies on any runtime environment
Several database frameworks to meet your requirements
Reporting and Charting
A choice of Networking libraries available

Lazarus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Lazarus?

Delphi

It is an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software.

Qt, a leading cross-platform application and UI framework. With Qt, you can develop applications once and deploy to leading desktop, embedded & mobile targets.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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