In a way it didn't, the Lazarus project is the current most well-known incarnation. But that itself tells a story: it's for desktop applications, mainly. It never really had a "here's how you do a web app" story around it. There was a period 1998-2002 when Delphi was hot (and it genuinely was very good) but all the cool kids saw PHP3 and Flash and hopped aboard, and at that point, in retrospect, you can see the start of the decline of desktop applications. By the time Rails landed in (I think?) 2008 "do everything on the web" was what a lot of people were already talking about, even if the truth of that didn't really land until much later.
Really it could have been go-lang before go-lang and I'm not sure why it wasn't other than that it wouldn't have been controllable by the folks at Google.
Really it could have been go-lang before go-lang and I'm not sure why it wasn't other than that it wouldn't have been controllable by the folks at Google.