To add my two cents, here's a piece I wrote on why I use Delphi/Object Pascal a few years back http://screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=43&Show=ABCE http

To add my two cents, here's a piece I wrote on why I use Delphi/Object Pascal a few years back http://screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=43&Show=ABCE http://screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=43&Show=ABCE Now that time has moved on, I no longer use Delphi at all, and rarely use FreePascal. My currently active projects are C, Node.js, and Browser Javascript. For game projects I prefer Haxe. For future large scale projects. I'm eyeing Rust. When the time comes I'll probably be weighing up the relative maturity of Haxe and Rust. They are developing from different directions, Rust being more idealistic and Haxe being more pragmatic, but I think they'll grow aspects of the other over time.