Ask HN: Modern RAD tool similar to VB6/Delphi?

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My son has been learning Scratch and expressed interest in doing more involved programming. Rather than dipping him in the cesspool of modern web development, I'd love to introduce him to programming via a RAD tool like VB6 or Delphi.

Is there a good modern equivalent? The closest I can think of is Windows Forms but even that has a lot longer ramp-up compared to VB6.

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Just saw this, but why not use delphi - there's a free community edition, works much the same as it always did - made a fart app with my nephew in an afternoon, he was happy

Since you mentioned Delphi, there is Lazarus, an open source IDE for Pascal which allows GUI development in a RAD way:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

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