In the past I tried and really liked Lazarus. I had to learn Lazarus AND Pascal…and I enjoyed the process. Lazarus made me want to learn Pascal. I have been using Linux exclusively for years, Lazarus seemed to be a superior replacement from Visual Basic which I use to use on MS-Windows. Recently I was looking at an old Lazarus projects that compiled and ran on both Windows and Linux [my Judo scoreboard program was written 12 years ago in 2005] and remembered how much I enjoyed this.
So for me Python will remain my main scripting language and I need to put more effort into Lazarus/Pascal for GUI development. Free Pascal seems very fast. I need to put more effort into getting Lazarus to work with SQLite for it to be truely useful for me. This is the missing piece of the puzzle for me because SQL is so powerful