[romwell]

>That said ... the other product with similar GUI design system was/is ... VB :)

That's because the guy in charge of Delphi left for Microsoft and is still in charge of Visual Studio :)

[vram22]

This 2014 HN thread is interesting for that and many other points:

Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7613543

[narag]

VB is older than Delphi. Anders went to Microsoft years later.

[unnouinceput]

Anders is in charge of C#, not VB.