Not dead at all, just invisible to the public thanks to Embarcadero and their prices. If you sell a development system at €1.699 up, you send the message that you rather want to deal with a few hundreds big/medium customers than millions of small ones.

For us mere mortals Lazarus comes to the rescue. Not on the same league of modern Delphi editions, but very comparable to those we used when it was popular in the early 2000s.