[squarefoot]

> I don't know why anyone would pick Pascal today over Nim, Zig, Rust, Julia, Go etc.

When writing desktop apps probably the familiarity with well known IDEs such as Delphi or Lazarus makes the difference. Unfortunately decades passed, still nothing comes even close to them for rapid GUI development. Should one day Lazarus support different languages such as the ones you mentioned, we'll probably hear a rumble around the world. However things in certain fields progress much quicker, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if in some time we could use AI to analyze a drawing then create the corresponding desktop interface description to be linked with non GUI code.