Why do you doubt this? Delphi was huge in the late 90s, and I would postulate that there is a major amount of legacy code still out there.
Delphi/Object Pascal shot up in the rankings just as Google released Chrome.
That's only significant because, at the time, the implementation of Object Pascal on the CLR also had the name "Chrome".
Why do you doubt this? Delphi was huge in the late 90s, and I would postulate that there is a major amount of legacy code still out there.