Geo-Marine Consult

Ok, this post has nothing to do with the old Biblical story of the suffering Lazarus, nor is the information presented in this post anything new. However, I was amazed (again, after some years of absence) that a) the Lazarus project is alive and kicking (something that cannot equally be said about it’s commercial brother, Delphi), and, b) that it so wonderfully easy to write a Linux application. I had used Free Pascal and it’s IDE Lazarus in the past, both under Windows and Linux (OpenSUSE and the Fox Board embedded Linux), but I had kind of forgotten about it .

However, I needed quickly a programm that connected an embedded machine via TCP/IP to my Windows PC, and in less than an hour I had it working perfectly. I can only recommend this great tool to anybody who needs small footprint application on Linux (you could say that about Windows, too, I guess), whithout the overhead of Mono (.NET) or Java. I have never tested this, but common sense tells me that such natively compiled applications should also be faster than anything based on an underlying framework (be it .NET/Mono or Java).

So, give it a go, enjoy, and provide some feedback on your experience…