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Being a very long time Delphi and FreePascal user with tens of thousands of lines of code in active use today, I never understood why pascal wasn't running way out front of Go, Rust, Java and all these other performant languages. It's so straight forward and such a pleasure to work with.

Because Turbo Pascal/Delphi was the ideal Pascal dialect (after Apple's Object Pascal) and Borland screwed it up.

If Borland had kept their indies demographic, hadn't made their half-backed attempt to Linux with Kylix, the history would most likely played in a different direction.

Pascal/Delphi code is soooooo clean to read and code in! And it's quite modern: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html

One wonders why there isn't something like it, but that you can use with any language instead of just Pascal or BASIC or QML+Cpp or whatever the crap Qt uses these days.

First they need to make the borrow checker more amendable to something like SwiftUI and UI component libraries.

The cognitive overhead of something like rust in non-systems programming is pretty much understated in HN discussions.