> But they fail to scale for teams where you want a distributed version system, automated tests and CI/CD pipelines.

I don't think this is true? Certainly you could have done those things with Delphi but it pre-dated DVCS and CI/CD being common concerns.

> Also you want to reuse code via package management systems.

Again, these tools pre-dated package management systems being in common use because they pre-date internet access at any sort of bandwidth being a reliable assumption. No reason they couldn't have one. Perl did at the time, which I mainly put down to it being in common use where internet access was a reliable assumption, but very little else did.

> And a single code base for several target systems (cross compilation , electron) is also nice

You can absolutely do this with Lazarus, which picked up where Delphi left off. Flash also counts here.

Think Flash (eventually) had most of these. That said, not all software development needs to happen at the same scale and not all software authoring environments benefit from the same tradeoffs vis-a-vis complexity, collaboration, accesibility etc. the success of Flash as a platform for independent game devs shows that different markets are better served by different tradeoffs.

> Also you want to reuse code via package management systems.

I thought everyone was on monorepos to "solve" that.