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I think the popularity of pascal has something to with Modula-2 (the successor of Pascal invented by Wirth) having been recently included as an officially supported language in gcc alongside Rust. I tried lazarus again, I was amazed. It is as simple as using VB6 for creating quick GUIs that run everywhere. Turbopascal is blazingly fast, produces efficient and small binaries.

Pascal also has libraries for nearly everything, check awesome pascal for a list of actively maintained third party libraries: https://github.com/Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-pascal

I feel like pascal is a hidden gem.