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That is a poimt of view, besides it was you that decided to pick on Delphi, it could have been C, VB, the random technology that falls under whatever.

> Most of those Electron folks would not manage to even write C applications on an Amiga, use Delphi, VB, or whatever.

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Sure, either of them qualifies. I was just pointing out that Delphi (and C, and VB) aren't really widely used in GUI toolkits anymore.

It's not just the difficulty. It's the lack of learning materials, widgets, examples, and whatnot. Debuggers also suck, at least they did when I used Delphi.

What also helps is having a huge behemoth of a corporation improving your GUI toolkit for free (Chromium, although you pay in ad exposure).

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