Question

I just started using FPC to practice more my old knowledge of Pascal, but now for Linux, then I started seeing much this comment after the ‘program’ declaration:

{$apptype console}

But is this a best practice comment or a type of declaration?

Answer 1

{$ ...} are not just comments but they are compiler directives.

Here is a list of compiler directives.

Specifically, {$apptype console} tells the compiler to make a console instead of a gui application.