konovod
I’m impressed with the community consideration of my question, in general.
konovod: The detailed pros and cons and personal experience you bring is especially gratifying. I’m perhaps reading a little too much between the lines, but your personal hacking on Lazarus gives you special credibility so I am going to ask: Were you considering / are you considering using the Lazarus framework (which is independent of the “free pascal” compiler) and re-purposing it as a drag-n-drop IDE for Crystal itself? Is that even possible, or are the languages just too alienated for that to be worth a try?