Lazarus on Raspberry pi - Yes!

[HappyLarry]

Lazarus installs beautifully on the Raspberry pi if you follow this:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_on_Raspberry_Pi

It only took about 20 minutes. I've never successfully installed Lazarus on Ubuntu in under 2 days.

Of course, Lazarus runs a bit slowly and compilation of 'Hello World' took a while but . . . this is a triumph for Lazarus.

Since the goal of RasPi is to encourage programming, maybe someone could persuade the Pi people to have Lazarus on the default distribution.

[picstart]

I agree it was almost painless porting Lazarus to the raspberrypi. With the factory churning out 4000 of these pi's daily and still not meeting the demand; these $35 raspberrypi boards will soon gain critical mass. Most code is done in Python and if the design goal of having everyone first learn coding on a pi is met python will be the language first learned. Lazarus might be in the running but it will be a start from behind. Android is at critical mass and the language often is java. If the pi stays python that leaves Lazarus as an alternative to visual C's and basic for business PC's and a dwindling number of home desktop/laptops. Lazarus is very nice but nice guys don't often win. The good news is that most lazarus code runs on the pi out of the box.
The lazarus compile is slow and the IDE is slow to launch but the lazarus executibles are snappy.