[HN Gopher] Pyscripter - open-source Python IDE written in Delphi
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Pyscripter - open-source Python IDE written in Delphi
Author : peter_d_sherman
Score : 32 points
Date : 2025-10-20 02:03 UTC (3 days ago)
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| satya71 wrote:
| A blast from the past! Pyscripter was definitely a top contender
| back in Python 2.3 days. Not sure when I stopped using it and
| why. Seems to be actively maintained. Will have to try again.
| albertzeyer wrote:
| This is Windows only.
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| I wonder, why don't they use Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-
| ide.org/)? That would also make it cross-platform, and probably
| gain much more interest in the project.
| shakna wrote:
| Lazarus was around 4 years old when the first version of
| Pyscripter was released.
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| Porting to it, might be an option at some point, but changing
| compiler without breaking anything, is not a tiny task for
| Delphi things.
|
| I'd say the biggest roadblock would be JEDI which assumes
| Windows everything.
|
| https://wiki.freepascal.org/JVCL_Components
| rsecora wrote:
| And with LLM Support: OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and local
| LLM models using Ollama.
| marcodiego wrote:
| No, not a good Idea. We did tons of efforts to achieve good
| multiplatform open source dev tools with exclusively FLOSS
| dependencies. Take dev-cpp as a remainder of what happens when
| people follow such path.
|
| And this is a comment I often link whenever I ser any news
| related to Delphi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520509
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