I miss Delphi
I work with Delphi professionally.  And we maintain a code base of about 150,000 lines of Pascal and about 300,000 lines of T-SQL (written to work in both Sybase and Microsoft SQL).Delphi may be easy, but it's not simple.  Once you get into the meat of things, Delphi's ecosystem truly becomes a limitation.Delphi's main drawback is its lack of library availability.  If you are in the marked for modern technology, using Delphi is a major hindrance.  And if you do find something, it's usually not of the same quality as the alternatives for other languages.I have nothing against Pascal, per say, but I do feel that I am being deliberately terse for the sake of the compiler, rather than for clarity.  Indeed, having to declare all variables at the beginning of a method doesn't necessarily make it more clear, sometimes the reverse.Even a popular tool like Indy for Delphi doesn't correctly implement the HTTP protocol, and therefore doesn't respond as you'd expect on malformed headers, so you have to handle those calls yourselves.Delphi was leading the pack in the 1990s, but has since fallen behind greatly.I've written a web server - and maintain a web server - in Delphi, and it's not something I would wish on anyone else.