# State & Plans of GUI development with Crystal

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/state-plans-of-gui-development-with-crystal/1615>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/state-plans-of-gui-development-with-crystal/1615 "2020-01-11T16:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![blkstph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba9def/32.png) [@blkstph](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/blkstph)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/state-plans-of-gui-development-with-crystal/1615/8 "2020-01-13T21:01:06Z")

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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?

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