I will give you Delphi guys this. You're passionate about the language. And if you know it, there are a LOT of handy dandy utilities.
I like the thing someone did a few months ago to my Delphi code (when I was doing Delphi). I had a 200 line routine to calculate yesterday, and they basically replaced it with a 1 line routine that said something like today() - 1.
Sadly, I've turned in the laptop from the old job, so my Delphi coding days are over.
The market is Java, Python, PHP, or VB. With a little bit of C and C++ left.
And as computers get faster and faster, more and more solutions will be based on interpreted environments.
Glen