[nurettin]

I've done my share of startness-upness and web development on both asp.net and rails. After designing desktop user interfaces using various versions of delphi, using visual and non-visual components that are bound to databases is great ease. (optionally using an API layer to do server-side processing) the amount of complexity, speed and ease of use you can cram into a single form while remaining responsive and user-friendly compared to wizard-style web pages is much staggering. The ability to step between dynamically loaded libraries while debugging is such freedom.

Overall it was an easier and more productive development experience for me.