Win32 apps from smaller teams often happen to be using Delphi underneath: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi http://delphi

Win32 apps from smaller teams often happen to be using Delphi underneath: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_Delphi http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built... As a dev environment Pascal is also (unsurprisingly) quite mature; both open source and commercial tools, a decent set of libraries, and a language designed to compile with blazing speed, which with modern extensions also has power somewhere in between C and C++.