A few reflections on Oxygene and Pascal.

[LP]

1. If Oxygene is really for pascal programmers or Oxygene is for C# and Java programmers?

No, I would say that Oxygene is for Oxygene programmers. That is, if you somehow feel inclined towards Pascal and/or feel nostalgic, then you could use Oxygene instead of C#. However, in my humble opinion, if you don't have unreasonable bias towards Pascalish syntax and want to use .NET, just stick with C# since it is a great language itself (designed by Anders Hejlsberg, the original designer of Turbo Pascal) and is backed up by Microsoft.

Since Oxygene is not backward compatible with Pascal and you'll have to convert your old Pascal code, you'd be better off porting it to something more popular like C#, which is maintained by a giant company instead of some niche language that may get abandoned eventually.

That, or keep using Pascal with Delphi and/or FPC/Lazarus.

[mobilus]

No, I would say that Oxygene is for Oxygene programmers.

I was thinking about the same answer but from a marketing point of view, the answer must be different... or should be different

That is, if you somehow feel inclined towards Pascal and/or feel nostalgic, then you could use Oxygene instead of C#. However, in my humble opinion, if you don't have unreasonable bias towards Pascalish syntax and want to use .NET, just stick with C# since it is a great language itself (designed by Anders Hejlsberg, the original designer of Turbo Pascal) and is backed up by Microsoft.

I'm familiar with C# but not with Java and why I'm really asking about Oxygene is that I see big power in this environment. It's like "Alfred P. Sloan Jr." who sales Hyatt bearings for two rival companies: Ford Motor Company and General Motors. He won because he didn't compete, he fits to both and used them. How important would be for my or ours potential investors, if we could use one solution for two rival/different platforms (.NET and Java) and use this same solution for engines like Unity3D or CryEngine?
I see potencial of Oxygene, but I don't see creativity in good marketing and I don't see simple examples.

Looking to the future of C# game development is very clear and Oxygene could be an alternative - only Unity3D has more than 500 000 users - if this market is no big enough to try?

Would Oxygene be the future of Pascal Language? It would be really someway possible to integrate it with everything else?

I think it's possible, but we don't know how to do it
On the other hand, if this is possible and we do not know how to use it, is much more tragic.