You haven't re-examined it? Watch the video. All those apps demoed were written with Lazarus. I'm not sure what clumsiness you had many years ago, but the language supports constructs such as generic programming with type constraints, iterators and enumerators, user definable conversions, value types with properties methods and events, extension methods, and more. And the compiler isn't buggy in the slightest, unlike Delphi.