The syntax of closures (they had to invent their own name, anonymous methods) is very long-winded. And generics? Only useable after several versions. Which leads to the most important point: quality is s*it (I'd suppose because they cannot tame the complexity any more).

Hello 'it works' likely won't get you far :-)

It's a pity, but the sooner they bankrupt the better. Something more focussed and contemporary might emerge or people invest and switch to FreePascal. Would love to have a native Pascal based ecosystem which would be innovative and friendly, like let's say, Xamarin!

The syntax of anonymous methods is consistent with the overall language syntax. Yes, Pascal has strict types and `begin`… `end` instead of curly braces. It tends to be more verbose than, say, JavaScript.