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Apache-2.0 license

The Pascal you love, reimagined for the modern era.

Blaise is a next-generation Object Pascal compiler built from the ground up to eliminate decades of legacy baggage. It prioritizes developer productivity, memory safety, and high-performance execution.

✨ The Vision

The Object Pascal ecosystem has two options: Embarcadero Delphi (proprietary, Windows-first) and Free Pascal (open source but carrying 30 years of accumulated complexity — five language modes, five string types, and thousands of include files).

This compiler takes a different approach:

One language mode. No {$mode} switches; no legacy dialect support.

One string type. UTF-8 reference-counted string. RawBytes for binary data.

One memory model. Automatic reference counting applies uniformly to strings, classes, and interfaces. No manual/auto split between TObject and TInterfacedObject ; [Weak] breaks cycles. Free is retained as a synonym for immediate release.

Clean interfaces.…