That would be interesting given they use Ireland to basically minimise tax, although they're still fighting a bill of $14bn the EU said they owe.

"why hasn't someone come out with a solid replacement?"

There are some companies/people keeping the torch burning but they're not as widely known, one such is Mercury which targets a whole host of platforms and is actually quite good - https://www.remobjects.com/elements/mercury/

The problem is it feels a bit of a niche language now because MS basically forced people on to C# by not actively maintaining VB.NET which was the first hop for people coming from VB. Early in my career I did various conversion projects for corps from VB to VB.NET then eventually as that atrophied to C#.

RemObjects is still making and releasing a pascal compiler (https://www.remobjects.com/elements/) that’s now part of a suite of language support.

They originally licensed their compiler to Embarcadero back in the day.

They’ve modernised the language a lot.

RO also still make and support various components and tooling for Delphi.

I ‘grew up’ on Delphi but somehow ended up in .NET land eventually and now mostly do that and/or React but I do miss it from time to time.

Oh man I remember Calmira from back in the day! Thanks for the blast from the past.

IIRC it was written in Delphi which I was using majorly around the same time so had fun poking around its internals and customising it even further.

I believe it started out as something called Calypso...those memories are vague though.