What we need
* Commercial backing by big companies
* Reliable, up-to-date documentation
* Quick tutorials for how to do things
* Commercial support
* "Made with" graphics, spread awareness
* High profile projects using it to replace other tech
* "Success stories", not just a list of software, but presentations on why companies go with Pascal and how it helped them win compared to other languages and other competitors.
Commercial backing
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Java has Oracle
Python has Python Software Foundation (Non profit but still)
Go has Google
We need companies willing to put time and money into using and improving things.
Reliable documentation
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The Wiki has tons of outdated information, some packages are just not documented at all, and tutorials/how-to's are either outdated or not there either.
When I evaluate a language, framework, or library, one of the first things I look at is documentation, because with poor docs, it'll be so much harder to get up and running, and the whole point in evaluating is to see what kind of an effort I think it'll be to solve a specific problem.
Quick tutorials for how to do things
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Videos, pages, whatever, just lots of tutorials showing how to do common and some uncommon things.
A lot of people are working with the web today, we should have solid documentation and tutorials for how to write servers, both just simple non-connect servers to fully Enterprise ready setups.
A simple example is
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs compared to
https://helloacm.com/execute-external-programs-the-python-ways/The FPC one has all the info needed, if you already know some FPC, doesn't put one and one together or help you along the way.
The Python one starts at the beginning and works with you to learn more, stepping through the various ways, increasing complexity, and explaining things.
Commercial support
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Another big one for corporations to consider using something, is there commercial support? Can they call a company and rent 40 hours of expertise immediately?
"Made with"
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Simple, people don't know FPC is used if they don't know it's used.
High profile projects using it to replace other tech
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A lot of languages and frameworks became a thing because Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc. decided to use them and then presented something along the lines of "How Netflix boosted their throughput by 40% by switching from <some tech> to <other tech>"
Success stories
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Similar to the above, but doesn't have to be really big companies and projects, smaller ones are great too.
Present at local hackathons, conferences, spread the word about how you went from PHP to FPC and saved money, made development faster, and grew your company as a result, record, and spread online.
We need to consider what other languages and frameworks are doing, because those are our competitors.
We need people do adopt it, and we need corporations to adopt it.
For that, they need to know about it, they need to want it, they need to succeed in using it.