The problem with claims of Pascal being dead or almost dead, is there are competing interests and evangelists of rival languages who wish it to be dead, and Pas

The problem with claims of Pascal being dead or almost dead, is there are competing interests and evangelists of rival languages who wish it to be dead, and Pascal/Object Pascal simply won't do them the favor. As partially shown by Object Pascal being consistently ranked around #15 (for many years) on the TIOBE index (sometimes a bit higher and sometimes a bit lower). To say Pascal/Object Pascal is almost dead, is to ignore how much more used and taught the language is over known and hyped languages in the media such as Go, Rust, Swift, Julia, etc... Nobody says that those languages are "almost dead", yet Pascal/Object Pascal is as or more used than any of them. One aspect of the confusion over if Pascal is dead or not, has to do with naming and marketing. Delphi is an IDE/compiler of the Object Pascal language. People can of heard the name Delphi, and know its still very alive, but have no idea or don't realize the language is Object Pascal. In the same context, this goes for Oxygene, and to a lesser degree, for Free Pascal/Lazarus, PascalABC, etc... People aren't aware of how they connect as dialects of Pascal/Object Pascal, and get confused by the names and marketing.