I started my career with turbo pascal, then Delphi… great language, great tooling. Tbh everything since then felt like a huge step back, especially for UI.
Absolutely my feeling as well. I'll never understand why more activity and innovation didn't coalesce around object pascal...save for FreePascal and Lazarus which are terrific.
My love for Pascal makes me appreciate very much the scripting in InnoSetup. The software itself is amazing, but the scripting gives it great versatility.