Comment by HackerThemAll

Unpopular opinion: FreePascal is perfectly capable of all that and produces tiny native executables. Their clone of Delphi's Visual Component Library - Free Component Library - is rich in features and don't change every year like those Microsoft toolkits.

I needed recently to make an exe that would work on anything from 32-bit Windows 95 up to and including Windows 11 (to accommodate some old machines on production lines), and the only language that made that easily achievable was FreePascal. I think it can also handle the older Windows NT if that is a requirement. There are lots of architectures supported with a single code base.

But for many the Pascal language is just to be laughed upon. Well, I make fast money using it and laugh from JavaScript.