I looked at some other common measures of programming language interest and usage to see if they also detected a rise for Object Pascal. Here’s what I found: ...

Later, Hejlsberg ported Turbo Pascal to the Macintosh, added Apple’s Object Pascal extensions, and ported the new language back to the PC, which eventually evolved into Delphi for Microsoft Windows.

Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, ... Delphi/Object Pascal, Ruby, Go, Swift, R, Groovy, Perl, MATLAB, ...

Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.… The IDE is developed independently from the underlying Pascal language that it's written ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.