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Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português Series — Part 2: Previous: From Delphi Developer to CrabPascal (058-delphi-dev-migration-guide). Resources: resources/readme, getting-started/quickstart, examples/crud. Pascal is still taught — algorithms courses, legacy maintenance, compet
Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português Delphi's modern UnicodeString model measures strings in UTF-16 code units, not bytes. Sprint 8 (v2.16.0) aligned CrabPascal's builtin string functions with that model — a breaking-but-necessary step for internationalized apps. Functions in
Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português Modern Delphi code rarely says uses SysUtils. It says uses System.SysUtils. CrabPascal Sprint 2 (v2.10.0) added first-class support for that dotted unit naming and the rtl/sys/ layout that mirrors Embarcadero's RTL structure. This is not co
Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português The lexer hands the parser a stream of tokens. The parser's job is to verify that stream follows Pascal grammar and build an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) — a tree-shaped data structure that represents program structure without irrelevant punc
Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português Writing Pascal in a modern editor should feel as smooth as TypeScript or Rust. The official CrabPascal extension (crabpascal.crabpascal) brings check, run, and build-exe into VS Code and Cursor with problem matchers, tasks, and keyboard sho
Bilingual post · Post bilíngue Jump to: English · Português You do not need a full Delphi IDE to run Pascal in 2026. CrabPascal v2.22.0 is a Rust-based compiler and runtime that lets you check, run, and optionally build native executables from .dpr and .pas files — in minutes. Windows: download crab