The VB Model Versus The Delphi Model

VB lets you call native Win32 APIs, so I am not sure where the impossible part comes in. It's difficult and cumbersome, but not impossible.

I prefer the Realbasic model, where 90% of everything is easy, 10% is hard, and you can compile cross-platform.

The thing that floored me with VB was it is was easy to write apps but surprisingly painful to deploy them (DLL hell initially, and then increasingly horrible installation).