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I have the opposite experience: I learned to program with Delphi, and all the React libraries feel like hard, slow ways to make stuff I'd make in five minutes in Delphi.


Yeah,we had this all figured out decades ago and then the web through in a monkey wrench that we never recovered from.

From a webdev point of view I love Vue...but it is a slow hard way to build UIs compared to Visual Basic, Delphi, or Swing.


Were you wiring up the UI by yourself with imperative code, or were you using Delphi's form editor (or whatever it was called)?

Because GP is criticizing Win32-style imperative UI code... and this is exactly what Delphi saves you from.


Describing GUIs in text should have been left in the 90s but I haven’t seen a better code paradigm for GUI behavior specification than VCL-style OOP.




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