I like Oberon, both the language and the system, but I don't see either expanding beyond niche usage, in spite of their elegance and compactness.

I was being sarcastic, as Wirth is probably the only language designer that removes features with each language revision.

While I loved my experience as Oberon user/dev, and it opened my mind to systems programming using GC languages, my favourite languages on Wirth's linage aren't done by him, rather influenced by his creations.

Modula-3 (which comes from Mesa/Cedar, not Oberon), Active Oberon (another ETHZ team), Zonnon, Delphi.

Why bother if there are already well developed relatives Delphi/FreePascal with nice tooling and plethora of libraries.

I was being sarcastic.

Object Pascal is already a PhD level language according to Go's design point of view.

Oops. Sorry for being dumb. Normally I am pretty good at detecting sarcasm. This time it is a royal f.. up on my side