Delphi has been the object of teasing over the years, as for some reason lots of devs only think of old-school teaching Pascal, rather than the incredibly powerful, modern language Object Pascal became. In fact the lead for Object Pascal went on to develop C# at Microsoft, if I recall, and a lot of the good ideas there came directly from Object Pascal.

I hear it is still used a lot outside of North America?

Embarcadero still develops Delphi, but they charge a mint for it, sadly. (Well, for an individual hobby dev that is -- not a lot for a company dev budget).

The modern free alternative is Lazarus + FreePascal. it's available for a ton of platforms, and it's the open-source spiritual successor to Delphi. It's worth a good look if one wants to make cross-platform UI apps.

https://www.freepascal.org/download.html

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/