Lazarus - what to expect next?

Question

Delphi

It so happened historically that I started learning programming, like, probably, most self-taught people from Delphi on Windows. A very simple language, a powerful IDE, a wagon and a cart of all sorts of "buns and cheesecakes", everything is fine, you consider yourself a megaprogrammer, you are delighted, but sooner or later sweet ends.
My sweets ran out on their own when I decided to discover Linux and already in the process of getting to know this OS, I discovered Lazarus
If a person does not set himself the task of writing something more or less useful, then lazarus' delays with updates will not disappoint him much, but if you want something more developing, then ... Here, we are waiting and we can’t wait for MySqlConnect 5.7. It is also very alarming that such a powerful environment still does not have a ready-made network component, like, for example, good old Delphi.
Out of the corner of my ear I looked at GetLazarus (which is Lazarus 1.7), but under Windows 7, XP, he is very indignant at any "sneeze in his direction", and under Linux it did not work to install it at all (some errors in the .sh installation file, which appear to be in need of further study.
In general, looking at the dynamics of the development of Lazarus, or rather at the lull in development, I want to ask like-minded people in ObjectPascal - what awaits us next and isn't it time to start reading C++ / Python / Qt books?

Answer 1

Face it, the only good thing about ObjectPascal that has survived is that you know it.
Learn something more relevant - get all the goodies of a living language and an active community.
ps. I wrote on Delphi3..7, but this train left.