Makes me wonder why people don't use Free Pascal more ... It shares many of Go's advantages described here (simple language, powerful libraries) and is frequent

Makes me wonder why people don't use Free Pascal more ... It shares many of Go's advantages described here (simple language, powerful libraries) and is frequently faster and uses less memory (8KB memory in 4 cases where Go uses 700-1200KB!) on the Benchmark Game programs. It's probably the C-like syntax that tips the scales every time ...