> As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.
Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs.
Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find yourself using different pieces of software on different OSes, which might be a bit cumbersome. For example, there is no Notepad++ on Linux (using Wine is a bit suboptimal) and so you might find yourself looking in the direction of something like Notepadqq, but obviously it might not give you 1:1 the same experience. That's not the case with something like Visual Studio Code, or even CudaText!
And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face, thanks to its lcl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library
They actually have an entire gallery of software written with Lazarus/FreePascal and it's rather interesting to behold: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal
Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs.
Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find yourself using different pieces of software on different OSes, which might be a bit cumbersome. For example, there is no Notepad++ on Linux (using Wine is a bit suboptimal) and so you might find yourself looking in the direction of something like Notepadqq, but obviously it might not give you 1:1 the same experience. That's not the case with something like Visual Studio Code, or even CudaText!
And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face, thanks to its lcl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library
They actually have an entire gallery of software written with Lazarus/FreePascal and it's rather interesting to behold: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal