Oh, I'm well aware of Delphi's continued existence. I'm maintaining a 15-year-old Delphi project right now.

I should be clear that I like Object Pascal. I just dislike the degree to which Delphi insists on holding your hand, and I hate the absurdly bloated code base for which that behavior is at least partly to blame.

I am actually surprised by the number of clients I've dealt with developing products in some form of Delphi and other archaic languages.