Pascal graduated to Delphi (Object-pascal with built-in GUI designer), and had a very healthy run for a decade and was my favorite language until Borland corpor

Pascal graduated to Delphi (Object-pascal with built-in GUI designer), and had a very healthy run for a decade and was my favorite language until Borland corporate stuff happened and a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft that turned Delphi into a sort of bastard sibling of .NET, and new owner Embercadero raised prices out of the reach of most of the small-time users that made up a bulk of the userbase. I was in a tiny factory-automation engineering group that used it to build user interfaces and data reporting for all the factory stations. Well, on that note, 3M corporate shut down the factory and moved it to China, so maybe other forces were in play to kill the userbase.