The two big features of Java - that helped it take over from C++ - were GC and the JVM ("write once, run anywhere!"). Object Pascal didn't have either of those

The two big features of Java - that helped it take over from C++ - were GC and the JVM ("write once, run anywhere!"). Object Pascal didn't have either of those things...Object Pascal was essentially Pascal-With-Classes, in the same was that C++ was C-With-Classes.