[Dolores12]

All modern tools are really complicated compared to Delphi. I remember Delphi was so intuitive to design GUI and program its events so i could start making my own programs right after professor showed me how to make a button and handle onClick event.

[badsectoracula]

Lazarus is pretty much a free and open source Delphi (yes there are differences but they do not matter much) and really not any different in terms of difficulty compared to it.

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

You can see it in action under Linux here where i make a simple puzzle game:

https://youtu.be/s_01Xhd2EJM?t=692

(if the time stamp doesn't work, skip to 11:32, the previous ~11 minutes are me downloading, compiling it and configuring it - not 100% necessary on Linux and on Windows i never do that as the installer is a classic wizard-based one, but as i write on the video, i prefer to compile it when using it on Linux - also note that on Windows you do not need to install FPC as it comes bundled with Lazarus, it is really just running the installer, double clicking the desktop icon and you're ready)

[p2detar]

Well, in all fairness, the same can be said about Visual Basic and all the <inser name here> .NET languages. And I'm not even a Windows programmer.

[barrkel]

Delphi does however cross the stack better than VB - with inline assembler being available, and a pretty decent debugger with integrated disassembler.

[codebolt]

Desktop development with current generation of Visual Studio is leaps and bounds better than Delphi ever was.