I think the DevCo needs to address things such as the memory usage of Objects, memory management, and a few other things that Pascal is 'behind' in. I think we all need to be concerned for awhile about the efficiency of Delphi, rather then its power
I think you're wrong here....memory managment is great mainly thanks to Pierre le Riche's FastMM which is now the default memory manager...memory usage is the smallest possible (4-byte alligned, packed would slow down execution time)...each object takes 4 + field_count*4 bytes (if there's a static array then of course it's different)....I've built some console Delphi apps using just SysUtils and System units and the application was sometimes faster than a C++ equivalent....keep in mind that Delphi compiler is the best in the world....the only thing, where memory usage and efficiency is a concern is the IDE itself....

able to simply set a whole array to 0 while we must walk through with a for-loop
FillChar(SomeArray[0], Length(SomeArray) * SizeOf(SomeArrayElementType), 0);