On: A guided intro to the Free Pascal language

[shadowofneptune]

Object Pascal has two magic types, dynamic arrays and AnsiStrings. These are automatically reference counted. Objects and classes have to be managed by hand, yes.

In general, expect a lot more compiler magic out of Pascal, a lot of concepts were hacked into the Borland compilers over time.

[usrnm → shadowofneptune]

So, it's closer to C++ wrt safety, not Go or Rust.

[shadowofneptune → usrnm]

That is accurate, yes. Borland C++ and Delphi share the same component library and are interoperable.