Pascal was my first programming language at University (circa 2016). Alas in 2018 they succumbed to student feedback (university admin was big on that) complaining about learning a "dead language".
Missing the point that it is a brilliant teaching language for a beginner to learn fundamental concepts.
Lazarus is the IDE. Free Pascal is the language. Both go together in Raspberry Pi without a problem. Create beautiful GUI that can run on touchscreen too. Use a $50 3.5 inch touchscreen + $35 RPi and you can have a beautiful IoT doing whatever you want.
Can I ask what kind of projects you work on as a Delphi developer today? I loved using it back in the day but I understand the market for it is quite slim now.
I spent two decades as a Delphi contractor. Not doing it anymore, but I still see a lot of control software for industrial machinery and lab equipment (at least those made in EU), POS and kiosk software as well as custom ERP and ERP style software.
I am currently working on NIR spectrometer and I am actually thinking about using Lazarus for driving touch screen instead of web based dashboard.