Pascal is not really becoming obscure, if you include its dialects and derivatives, like Delphi and Free Pascal. Delphi, though expensive, is still used a lot i

Pascal is not really becoming obscure, if you include its dialects and derivatives, like Delphi and Free Pascal. Delphi, though expensive, is still used a lot in companies, particularly in Europe, including Germany. I was a heavy Turbo Pascal user earlier, did some commercial and hobby work with it, and did some Delphi and FreePascal too. The speed of operation of the TUI FreePascal IDE (similar to that of the Turbo Pascal IDE) blows IDEs like Visual Studio, IntelliJ,and Eclipse out of the water, after you develop just a little muscle memory for it. Also, FreePascal binaries are quite small, and comparable to those created by C and D. I had done a quick test of that a while ago, for small programs. All were in the range of under 100 KB.