I have a vague memory of informally sharing some homebrew Pascal parsing/code generation code to what I think may have been a predecessor of Free Pascal in like 1996 to someone I met over the web, back when people had homepages and public email addresses. We were all mourning the death of Turbo Pascal for DOS; Borland was just focusing on Windows.

I'm sure it was very crappy and never really used in the actual Free Pascal, but it's a fun memory nonetheless.

It's really nice to see this Free Pascal/Lazarus thing still alive.

Congratulations.

Has it always been a Qt wrapper, or is this new?

I have mixed feelings about the single-window mode ("modern IDE" style, says the wizard). It's kind of neat having everything tidied up like a tiling window manager can do, but at the same time, it feels a bit like a downgrade, especially since you can achieve its effect with... a tiling window manager.

Well, no real reason to complain, the IDE freely gives you the option to use the old multi-window mode or single-window mode and you can change at any time.