Pascal is not dead, friend.
It's just not as popular as it used to be.
If you visit this forum regularly, you will see lots of users active in the forum and you will know Lazarus/FreePascal/Pascal is actively developed. Some years ago, we added support to Android. Now we have LAMW and FPC JVM if you want to target Android platform. The support for MacOS is improving. Not only Raspberry and Arduino, now we also can do program for Microchip PIC. It may seem dead from outside but actually it is lively in the inside. And some years ago, someone even forked Lazarus and the result CodeTyphon seems to attract a good amount of users because it has its own beauty.
Do you want to join fun?
I promise you won't regret.
Why is everybody here?
I learned and used BASIC (and its variants). Not happy because it is slow. I then tried Assembly language, it is fast but not productive. I ever tried to learn C, Clipper, FoxPro, Python, they are not for me.
I am open to try new things but I still here because:
- Pascal is great, outsiders won't know what we mean
- Lazarus / FreePascal is free, well-maintained, native code for multiple targets
- The forum is very active, I always can learn something new everyday visiting the forum
- People here are nice and skilled