Its funnt how people will not want to use Pascal of any flavor because its perceived as old/obsolete and yet the same people have no problem firing up AWK to so

Its funnt how people will not want to use Pascal of any flavor because its perceived as old/obsolete and yet the same people have no problem firing up AWK to solve a text processing problem. LAzarus provides a great way to address the perception. Fast, free, rich language underneath. Im about to start using in my hobby IOT stuff, but as other posters have pointed out, it works great for Enterprise level stuff as well. Single exe executable is, in my books, a huge advantage. FTR have started looking at nim as well which seems so far to be bit of a pascal 'reborn' and it also compiles down to single executable. I recommend people look at both if you are needing to distrbute software without the normal installer drama. Bottom line i believe there is no software silver bullet. Each language has pros and cons and the biggest challenge these days is choosing the appropriate one to use.